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![]() | Tench Francis 1746 Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, NY | Unrated | Anonymous | |
![]() | Thomas Hopkinson 1746 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | ![]() Thomas Hopkinson wears a full-bottomed wig and a sword, and he stands before a balustrade and a grove of pruned cypresses. But these European props do not tell the whole story. Hopkinson was also an ambitious citizen of a new society interested in new discoveries. He studied law in England but carved out a career for himself in Philadelphia, where he... | Unrated | Anonymous |
![]() | William Bowdoin 1748 Bowdoin College Museum of Art Brunswick, ME | ![]() William Bowdoin, born Boston, June 14th 1713; graduated Harv. Coll. 1735; a merchant; member of the Provincial Council ; chosen by Roxbury to act on several committees during the troubles before the Revolution ; married Phoebe Murdock; she died December 13th 1772, aged 49 ; had three daughters, two of whom died unmarried; Sarah Bowdoin, the third... | Unrated | Anonymous |
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