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Gustavus Brown

Gustavus Hesselius
Painting
1742
Owner: Smithsonian American Art Museum
Louis Billouart Chevauex De Kerlerec

Louis Billouart Chevauex De Kerlerec

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1750
Owner: Louisiana State Museum

Jean Baptiste Le Moyne, sieur de Bienville

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1743-68
Owner: Historic New Orleans Collection

Joanna and Elizabeth Perkins

John Smibert
Painting
c. 1749
Owner: Saint Louis Art Museum

Mary Clare MacCubbin

John Hesselius
Painting
c. 1747?
Owner: Aubrey Pearre IV

Mrs. Cadwallader Colden

John Wollaston
Painting
c. 1749-1752
Owner: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Anne Randolph

John Wollaston
Painting
c. 1749-53
Owner: Virginia Museum of History and Culture

Portrait of General Staats Long Morris

John Wollaston
Painting
c. 1749-52
Owner: New Orleans Museum of Art

Elizabeth Randolph Grymes

John Wollaston
Painting
c. 1747-57
Owner: Virginia Museum of History and Culture

Anne Bayne Ramsay (Mrs. Allan Ramsay)

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1739-42
Owner: Scottish National Portrait Gallery
Isaac Royall and Family

Isaac Royall and Family

Robert Feke
Painting
1741
Owner: Harvard Law School
George I

George I

Thomas Hudson
Painting
1744
Owner: National Portrait Gallery, London

Portrait of an Unidentified Woman

Unidentified Artist
Painting
n.d.a.
Owner: Portland Art Museum

John Winthrop

Unidentified Artist
Painting
mid 18th-mid 19th century
Owner: Harvard University Portrait Collection

Susanna Truax

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1740
Owner: National Gallery of Art
Lewis Burwell

Lewis Burwell

Charles Bridges
Painting
c. 1735-40
Owner: Private collection

Catherine Harris Smith Pemberton

John Wollaston
Painting
c. 1750
Owner: Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art

Chief Justice Edward Shippen

Robert Feke
Painting
c. 1746
Owner: Philadelphia Museum of Art

Martha Salisbury Quincy

Unidentified Artist
Painting
1745-47
Owner: Worcester Art Museum

Mrs. Thomas Dongan

John Wollaston
Painting
1749-52
Owner: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Joyce Armistead Booth

Joyce Armistead Booth

William Dering
Painting
1745-49
Owner: Private Collection

Margaret Sanford Hutchinson

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1740s-50s
Owner: The Bostonian Society - Old State House

Henry Fitzhugh

John Hesselius
Painting
c. 1751
Owner: Virginia Museum of History and Culture

John Greenleaf

John Singleton Copley
Painting
c. 1753-54
Owner: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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