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George Washington (Trenton type)

Charles Willson Peale
Painting
c. 1779-81
Owner: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Washington Before Boston

Pierre Simon Benjamin Duvivier
Medal
1786
Owner: American Numismatic Society

George Washington

Sculpture
1788
Owner: New-York Historical Society

Colonel Marinus Willett

Ralph Earl
Painting
c. 1791
Owner: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
George Washington

George Washington

John Norman
Print
1781
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
George Washington

George Washington

Jean-Antoine Houdon
Sculpture
late 18th-early 19th century
Owner: de Saisset Museum

George Washington

Unidentified Artist
Painting
late 18th-mid 19th century
Owner: Private collection

George Washington

Joseph Hiller
Print
c. 1777

George Washington

Charles Peale Polk
Painting
after 1780
Owner: The Society of the Cincinnati

George Washington

Jean-Antoine Houdon
Sculpture
after 1785
Owner: National Museum, Stockholm

Portrait Bust of George Washington

Giuseppe Ceracchi
Sculpture
c. 1792
Owner: Private Collection

William Augustus Bowles

Thomas Hardy
Painting
late 18th-early 19th century
Owner: Private collection

George Washington

William Joseph Williams
Painting
c. 1794
Owner: Private Collection
George Washington

George Washington

Charles Willson Peale
Print
1787
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; Funded by Wendy Wick Reaves, Curator Emerita of Prints and Drawings

Marquis De Lafayette

Charles Willson Peale
Painting
c. 1780-81
Owner: Washington & Lee University

General William North

Charles Willson Peale
Painting
1785
Owner: Detroit Institute of Arts

Portrait of General William Moultrie

Charles Willson Peale
Painting
c. 1782

Jeffrey Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst

Thomas Gainsborough
Painting
c. 1780
Owner: National Portrait Gallery, London

Marquis de Lafayette

Louis Leopold Boilly
Painting
1788
Owner: Musée National du Château de Versailles

Walter Stewart

Robert Edge Pine
Painting
c. 1784-88
Owner: Winterthur Museum
Thomas Gage

Thomas Gage

Robert Pollard
Print
c. 1782
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

Jeffery Amherst

Robert Edge Pine
Painting
c. 1760-80
Owner: Sotheby's, London

Charles Cotesworth Pinckney

Joseph Bowring
Painting
c. 1785
Owner: R. W. Norton Art Gallery

Joseph Trumbull

John Trumbull
Painting
c. 1778
Owner: Connecticut Historical Society

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