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Watercolor of a woman in a white dress and blue shawl seated beside a potted rosebush in a garden with a river.

Woman in a Garden

Sarah P. Wells, 1800

Seated man in black coat with white cravat and gold medal, hand resting on paper beside books and a quill pen.

Portrait of General Giles

Joseph Wright of Derby, 1785

Oil portrait of a man in a powdered wig, brown coat and white cravat, set in an oval against a dark background.

A Member of the Livingston Family

John Smibert, 1740

Two seated women in white Regency dresses, one holding an open book, before a landscape with a cloudy sky.

The Misses Mary and Hannah Murray

John Trumbull, 1800

Oil portrait of a woman in a white satin gown with lace, seated before a dark tree and cloudy sky.

Portrait of Lucy Parry, Wife of Admiral Parry

John Wollaston the Younger, 1745

Oil portrait of an elderly woman in a white bonnet and a boy in a blue jacket sharing an open book.

Mrs. James Smith and Grandson

Charles Willson Peale, 1776

Half-length portrait of a young woman in a white satin gown with blue sleeves and a blossom in her hair, c. 1760.

Polly Ouldfield of Winyah

Jeremiah Theus, 1760

Oil portrait of a family of four in a garden setting with trees, a stone wall, and a distant windmill and river.

The Wiley Family

William Williams, 1771

Painting of San Juan Nepomuceno holding a crucifix, with a palm frond, five stars, a book, and a blue-draped table.

San Juan Nepomuceno

José Campeche, 1798

Portrait of a man in a blue coat and red gold-braided waistcoat leaning on a stone balustrade, holding a letter.

Lord Rothes

Lord Rothes, 1760

Portrait of a seated man in a brown coat beside red drapery, with a window view of the sea and sky behind him.

Robert Hooper

John Singleton Copley, 1770

Oil portrait of a man in a powdered wig and red coat leaning on a stone ledge, with a cloudy sky behind him.

Thomas Hopkinson

Robert Feke, 1746

Landscape painting of a ruined castle on a hill, a river with two figures on rocks, a wooden bridge, and red-roofed cottages.

Landscape

Thomas Gainsborough, 1770

Painting of a seated man in green robes watching two women and a winged cupid before a red curtain and cloudy sky.

Helen Brought to Paris

Benjamin West, 1776

Portrait of a woman in a red silk gown with white satin skirt, holding a blue and white vase of tulips against a dark backgro

Mrs. George Watson

John Singleton Copley, 1765

Small landscape painting with a river, boat, ruined building, figures on a path, and distant mountains under clouds.

Small Landscape

Welsh Richard Wilson, 1710

Portrait of a woman in a blue satin dress with lace trim, holding a black fan with a pink rose.

Mrs. Richard Brown

John Hesselius, 1760

Seated woman in green dress, white lace bonnet and shawl, beside a round table and a river landscape painting.

Mrs. Richard Alsop

Ralph Earl, 1792

Dark landscape with a cliff and cross, a rider by a river, a large tree on the right, and distant hilltop buildings.

White Monk

Welsh Richard Wilson, 1710

Oval portrait of a woman in a blue dress with white lace trim against a dark background, painted in 1742.

Mrs. Gustavus Brown

Gustavus Hesselius, 1742

Two children in white dresses with pink sashes stand beside a potted white lily plant under a dusky sky.

The Davis Children (Eliza Cheever Davis and John Derby Davis)

Edward Savage, 1795

Classical landscape with a river, dancing figures, a lyre player, a ruined temple, and distant mountains under a pale sky.

Apollo and the Seasons (Classical Landscape)

Welsh Richard Wilson, 1770

Painting of the Nativity: Mary and Joseph beside the newborn Christ in a manger, with three angels above in glowing clouds.

La Natividad

José Campeche, 1799

Oval portrait of a clergyman in black gown and white bands with a powdered grey wig against a dark background.

Rev. Richard Brown

John Hesselius, 1760

Oil portrait of a young man in a powdered wig, dark coat, red cravat and lace jabot, resting his hand on books.

John Swanwick

Matthew Pratt, 1800

Oval portrait of a man in a powdered wig, blue coat and white cravat against a dark background.

Dr. Gustavus Brown

Gustavus Hesselius, 1742

Oil landscape of a large tree, two figures with a grey horse on a dirt path, a windmill and cloudy sky.

Spring Plowing near East Burgholt

John Constable, 1800

Oil portrait of a curly-haired man in a dark coat and white cravat against a red drapery backdrop.

Portrait of Edward Shippen Burd of Philadelphia

Rembrandt Peale, 1800

Two purple grackles perched on corn stalks, one brown and one iridescent blue-black, painted in watercolor on aged paper.

Purple Grackle

John James Audubon, 1785

Oil painting of a seated man in green robes with women and a winged cupid beside a red curtain under a cloudy sky.

Helen Brought to Paris

Benjamin West, 1770