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 | Thomas Earle 1800 National Gallery of Art Washington, D.C. | Unrated | Anonymous | |
 | The Striker Sisters 1787 Butler Institute of American Art Youngstown, OH |  The Striker Sisters is one of about twenty known works painted while Earl was in debtor's prison. From September, 1786, until his release on January 29, 1788, he resided in New York's City Hall jail. What might have been a nightmarish episode was first alleviated and later ended by the passage of An Act for the Relief of Insolvent Debtors, April 13,... | Unrated | Anonymous |
 | Robert Boyd 1788 Brooklyn Museum New York, NY | Unrated | Anonymous | |
 | Portrait Of A Connecticut Clockmaker's Wife ca. 1800 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | This painting of a Connecticut clockmaker’s wife was meant to hang to the right of her husband’s portrait, preserving their images and values for subsequent generations. Ralph Earl showed her holding a book, possibly a Bible, as a sign of piety and literacy. The drapery in the background was a compositional device that the artist learned when he... | Unrated | Anonymous |
 | Portrait Of A Connecticut Clockmaker ca. 1800 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | Ralph Earl was born into a prominent family of craftsmen, and his portraits are painted with sharp attention to detail. In this painting the subject sits in a Sheraton “fancy” armchair, a type that was especially popular in the Connecticut Valley, where Earl worked. The wooden clock on the tea table might be a kind of clock that was developed in... | Unrated | Anonymous |
 | Noah Smith 1798 Art Institute of Chicago Chicago, IL | Ownership History: Noah Smith, Bennington, Vermont, 1798; by descent to Eliza Smith, Huntington, Vergennes, Vermont, 1812. Ann Eliza Huntington, Vergennes, Vermont, by 1912; John Harrington, Vergennes, Vermont, from 1912; bequeathed to Grand Lodge of the Most Ancient and Honorable Society of Free and Accepted Masons of the State of Vermont,... | Unrated | Anonymous |
 | Mrs. Williams 1837 Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, NY | Unrated | Anonymous | |
 | Mrs. Richard Alsop 1792 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | Unrated | Anonymous | |
 | Mrs. Noah Smith And Her Children 1798 Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, NY | Unrated | Anonymous | |
 | Mrs. Joseph Wright 1792 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | Unrated | Anonymous |
- Ralph Earl
