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Peter Boylston Adams

ca. 1765-1770
oil on copper
image (oval): 3 1/8 x 2 1/2 in. (7.8 x 6.2 cm)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

notes
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.
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Mrs. George Watson

1765
oil on canvas
49 7/8 x 40 in. (126.7 x 101.6 cm)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

notes
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...
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Robert Hooper

ca. 1770-1772
oil on canvas
50 x 40 in. (127.0 x 101.6 cm)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

notes
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...
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Henry Pelham (Or Jonathan Clarke)

About 1770–74
Watercolor on ivory
4.44 x 3.56 cm (1 3/4 x 1 3/8 in.)

Museum of Fine Arts

Boston, MA

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Joseph Hooper

About 1770–71
Watercolor on ivory
3.8 x 2.9 cm (1 1/2 x 1 1/8 in.)

Museum of Fine Arts

Boston, MA

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A Boy With A Flying Squirrel (Henry Pelham)

1765
oil on canvas
77.15 x 63.82 cm (30 3/8 x 25 1/8 in.)

Museum of Fine Arts

Boston, MA

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James Gambier

1773
oil on canvas
127.63 x 101.6 cm (50 1/4 x 40 in.)

Museum of Fine Arts

Boston, MA

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Mrs. Joseph Barrell (Hannah Fitch)

about 1771
Pastel on paper mounted on canvas
60.64 x 45.72 cm (23 7/8 x 18 in.)

Museum of Fine Arts

Boston, MA

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Miss Russell

about 1755
Oil on copper
Overall: 7.3 x 6 cm (2 7/8 x 2 3/8 in.)

Museum of Fine Arts

Boston, MA

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Portrait Of John, 2nd Viscount Dudley And Ward

ca. 1782-1803
oil on canvas
142.24 x 118.75 cm (56 x 46.75 in)

Private Collection

Unknown, USA

notes
John Ward, 2nd Viscount Dudley and Ward (22 February 1725 – 10 October 1788) was a British peer and politician.
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