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Mrs. Ebenezer Storer (Mary Edwards)

1767–69
Pastel on laid paper, mounted on canvas
24 x 18 in. (61 x 45.7 cm)

Metropolitan Museum of Art

New York, NY

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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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Mrs. Jeremiah Lee (Martha Swett)

circa 1769
oil on canvas
Height: 241.3 cm (95 in.), Width: 149.86 cm (59 in.)

Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art

Hartford, CT

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Mrs. John Winthrop

1773
oil on canvas
35 1/2 x 28 3/4 in. (90.2 x 73 cm)

Metropolitan Museum of Art

New York, NY

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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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Mrs. Sylvanus Bourne

1766
oil on canvas
50 1/4 x 40 in. (127.6 x 101.6 cm)

Metropolitan Museum of Art

New York, NY

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Nicholas Boylston (1716-1771)

1767
oil on canvas
127.3 x 101.1 cm (50 1/8 x 39 13/16 in.) framed: 145.42 x 120.02 x 10.16 cm (57 1/4 x 47 1/4 x 4 in.)

Harvard University Art Museums

Cambridge, MA

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Paul Revere

1768
oil on canvas
35 x 28 1/2" (88.9 x 72.3 cm)

Museum of Fine Arts

Boston, MA

notes
Paul Revere (bapt. January 1, 1735 [O.S. December 21, 1734] – May 10, 1818)[1] was an American silversmith and a patriot in the American Revolution.
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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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Portrait Of Dorothy Quincy

ca. 1772
oil on canvas
127 x 100 cm (50 x 39.37 in)

Museum of Fine Arts

Boston, MA

notes
Dorothy Quincy Hancock Scott (10 May 1747 – 3 February 1830) was an American hostess, the daughter of Justice Edmund Quincy of Braintree and Boston. Her aunt, also named Dorothy Quincy, was the subject of Oliver Wendell Holmes' poem Dorothy Q.
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