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Abigail Smith Adams (Mrs. John Adams)

1800/1815
oil on canvas
overall: 73.4 x 59.7 cm (28 7/8 x 23 1/2 in.) framed: 97.5 x 84.8 x 10.8 cm (38 3/8 x 33 3/8 x 4 1/4 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Washington, D.C.

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Abigail Adams (nee Smith; November 11, 1744 – October 28, 1818) was the wife of John Adams, who was the second President of the United States, and the mother of John Quincy Adams, the sixth. She was the first Second Lady of the United States, and the second First Lady of the United States.
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Anna Payne Cutts

1804
oil on canvas
Height: 73.66 cm (29 in.), Width: 61.28 cm (24.13 in.)

The White House Collection

Washington, D.C.

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Benjamin West

circa 1785
oil on canvas
35 1/2 in. x 27 1/2 in. (902 mm x 699 mm)

National Portrait Gallery

Washington, D.C.

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Charles Lee or Gentleman of the Lee Family

1794–1803
oil on canvas
30 x 25 in. (76.2 x 63.5 cm)

Metropolitan Museum of Art

New York, NY

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Charles Wilkes

ca. 1794
oil on canvas
30 x 25 in. (76.2 x 63.5 cm)

Metropolitan Museum of Art

New York, NY

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Daniel Webster

1825
oil on canvas
Height: 91.44 cm (36 in.), Width: 71.12 cm (28 in.)

Private Collection

Unknown, USA

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Daniel Webster (January 18, 1782 – October 24, 1852) was a leading American statesman and senator during the nation's Antebellum Period. He first rose to regional prominence through his defense of New England shipping interests.
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David Sears, Jr.

ca. 1815
oil on canvas
27 1/4 x 23 1/2 in. (69.2 x 59.7 cm)

Metropolitan Museum of Art

New York, NY

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General Peter Gansevoort

1794
oil on canvas
Height: 76.52 cm (30.13 in.), Width: 63.5 cm (25 in.)

Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute of Art

Utica, NY

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Peter Gansevoort (July 17, 1749 – July 2, 1812) was a Colonel in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. He is best known for leading the resistance to Barry St. Leger's Siege of Fort Stanwix in 1777. Gansevoort was also the maternal grandfather of Moby-Dick author Herman Melville.
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George Heathcote

ca. 1785
oil on canvas
36 x 28 in. (91.4 x 71.1 cm)

Metropolitan Museum of Art

New York, NY

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George Washington

ca. 1795–96
oil on canvas
30 1/4 x 25 1/4 in. (76.8 x 64.1 cm)

Metropolitan Museum of Art

New York, NY

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When he first sat for Stuart, President George Washington was sixty-three years old and near the end of his second term of office. Stuart subscribed to prevailing theories about physiognomy, which held that a study of the outward body could reveal a person's inner qualities. It took all of Stuart's colloquial powers to engage Washington in...
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