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Tench Francis

1746
oil on canvas
49 x 39 in. (124.5 x 99.1 cm)

Metropolitan Museum of Art

New York, NY

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Thomas Hopkinson

1746
oil on canvas
overall: 49 3/4 x 39 5/8 in. (126.5 x 100.5 cm)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

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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...
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William Bowdoin

1748
Oil
50 1/4 x 40 1/4 in. (cm. 127.6 x 102.2)

Bowdoin College Museum of Art

Brunswick, ME

notes
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...
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