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Margaret Brown Stone

c. 1785
oil on canvas
67.3cm x 53.3cm (26 1/2" x 21")

Smithsonian Institution

New York, NY

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Mary Ball Washington

photomechanical print
no dimensions avaliable

Library of Congress

Washington, D.C.

notes
Mary Ball Washington (1708 – 1789) was the second wife to Augustine Washington (after the first wife, Jane Butler, died) and was the mother of George Washington.
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Patience Lovell Wright

oil on canvas
125cm x 101.6cm (49 3/16" x 40")

Smithsonian Institution

New York, NY

notes
Patience Wright, a Quaker widow from Bordentown New Jersey, looked to support her children by modeling in wax to produce lifelike figures of celebrities, exhibiting them with success in Philadelphia and New York. After a fire destroyed much of her collection, she went to England in 1772, where her artistic skill and engaging bluntness won her a...
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Robert Morris

c. 1785
oil on canvas
92.4 x 74.6 x 3.8cm (36 3/8 x 29 3/8 x 1 1/2")

Smithsonian Institution

New York, NY

notes
As the Second Continental Congress moved toward a vote for independence, Robert Morris, one of America's leading merchants, thought that the country was not ready for it. In the interest of colonial unity, Morris absented himself from the Pennsylvania delegation when the vote was taken on July 2, but added his signature to the embossed copy of the...
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Still Life With Palette And Brushes, Fruit And Flowers

circa 1760-70
oil on canvas
452 x 617 mm

Tate Gallery

London, UK

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Thomas Stone

c. 1827
Ink wash on illustration board
Image: 9.8cm x 8.2cm (3 7/8" x 3 1/4") Sheet: 26.3cm x 15.3cm (10 3/8" x 6")

Smithsonian Institution

New York, NY

notes
Thomas Stone (1743 – October 5, 1787) was an American planter who signed the United States Declaration of Independence as a delegate for Maryland. He later worked on the committee that formed the Articles of Confederation in 1777. He acted as President of Congress for a short time in 1784.
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Thomas Stone (1)

c. 1785
oil on canvas
67.5cm x 53.3cm (26 9/16" x 21")

Smithsonian Institution

New York, NY

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William Hunter

Print
Graphic: 11.6 x 9.4 cm / Sheet: 26.7 x 20.2 cm

The Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology

Washington, D.C.

notes
William Hunter FRS (23 May 1718 – 30 March 1783) was a Scottish anatomist and physician. He was a leading teacher of anatomy, and the outstanding obstetrician of his day. His guidance and training of his ultimately more famous brother, John Hunter, was also of great importance.
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William Irvine

oil on canvas
Overall: 30 1/4 x 25 in. ( 76.8 x 63.5 cm )

New York Historical Society

New York, NY

notes
Irvine was a delegate to the Continental Congress which met in New York in 1786-88. While there his portrait was painted by Robert Edge Pine, who had come to America from England in 1784. Lambdin, one of the popular portraitists of Philadelphia between ca. 1840 and 1870, based his portrait of Irvine on Pine's late eighteenth-century work. Irvine is...
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