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![]() | Peter Boylston Adams ca. 1765-1770 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | ![]() This miniature is thought to show Peter Boylston Adams, who was born in Norfolk, Massachusetts, in 1738. Peter was the brother of the second president of the United States, John Adams, and a captain in the Revolutionary War. He married Mary Crosby in 1768, and this miniature may have been painted to commemorate their wedding. | Unrated | Anonymous |
![]() | Mrs. George Watson 1765 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | ![]() Mrs. Watson, the wife of a wealthy Boston merchant, wears a fashionably low-cut gown of luscious satin and white lace and holds a porcelain vase that echoes the contours of her figure. The yards of expensive fabric and silk ribbons in the costume testified to George Watson's success as an importer of European goods, as did the fact that he could... | Unrated | Anonymous |
![]() | Robert Hooper ca. 1770-1772 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | ![]() Mr. Hooper was the son of Robert King Hooper, who owned a fishing fleet that worked out of Marblehead, Massachusetts. The younger man already sports the rotund physique that Copley had captured in a portrait of Hooper's father years earlier. Behind him, the sea, visible through an open window, recalls the source of his family’s riches. Robert had... | Unrated | Anonymous |
| Henry Pelham (Or Jonathan Clarke) About 1770–74 Museum of Fine Arts Boston, MA | Unrated | Anonymous | ||
| Joseph Hooper About 1770–71 Museum of Fine Arts Boston, MA | Unrated | Anonymous | ||
| A Boy With A Flying Squirrel (Henry Pelham) 1765 Museum of Fine Arts Boston, MA | Unrated | Anonymous | ||
| James Gambier 1773 Museum of Fine Arts Boston, MA | Unrated | Anonymous | ||
| Mrs. Joseph Barrell (Hannah Fitch) about 1771 Museum of Fine Arts Boston, MA | Unrated | Anonymous | ||
| Miss Russell about 1755 Museum of Fine Arts Boston, MA | Unrated | Anonymous | ||
![]() | Portrait Of John, 2nd Viscount Dudley And Ward ca. 1782-1803 Private Collection Unknown, USA | ![]() John Ward, 2nd Viscount Dudley and Ward (22 February 1725 – 10 October 1788) was a British peer and politician. | Unrated | Anonymous |
- John Singleton Copley







