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Thomas Smith

1785–87
Oil on canvas
30 x 25 in. (76.2 x 63.5 cm)

Metropolitan Museum of Art

New York, NY

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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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Joshua Reynolds

1784
oil on canvas
Height: 91.76 cm (36.13 in.), Width: 76.52 cm (30.13 in.)

Private Collection

Unknown, USA

notes
Sir Joshua Reynolds RA FRS FRSA (16 July 1723 – 23 February 1792) was an influential 18th-century English painter, specialising in portraits and promoting the "Grand Style" in painting which depended on idealization of the imperfect. He was one of the founders and first President of the Royal Academy. King George III appreciated his merits and...
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John Trumbull

1818
oil on canvas
Height: 66.04 cm (26 in.), Width: 54.61 cm (21.5 in.)

Yale University Art Gallery

New Haven, CT

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John Trumbull (June 6, 1756 – November 10, 1843) was an American artist during the period of the American Revolutionary War and was notable for his historical paintings. His Declaration of Independence was used on the reverse of the two-dollar bill.
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Horatio Gates

ca. 1793–94
oil on canvas
44 1/4 x 35 7/8 in. (112.4 x 91.1 cm)

Metropolitan Museum of Art

New York, NY

notes
Description: This portrait, representing Revolutionary War hero General Horatio Gates (1728–1806), was painted long after he led his troops to victory at the Battle of Saratoga in 1777. Although his military career was turbulent, the English-born Gates is represented in the uniform of a brigadier general, decorated with the medal that Congress...
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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 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

notes
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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George Washington (1)

1796
oil on canvas
no dimensions avaliable

National Portrait Gallery

Washington, D.C.

notes
Gilbert Stuart painted this celebrated "Lansdowne" portrait in his Germantown, Pennsylvania, studio in 1796. It was commissioned by William Bingham, United States senator from Pennsylvania, and his wife, for the Earl of Shelburne, later Marquis of Lansdowne, who had defended the rebellious colonies in Parliment.
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Washington At Dorchester Heights

1806
Oil on panel
274.95 x 180.34 cm (108 1/4 x 71 in.)

Museum of Fine Arts

Boston, MA

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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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