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Thomar, Portugal

by John Singer Sargent

probably 1903
Watercolor over graphite pencil on paper
Sheet: 30.5 x 45.7 cm (12 x 18 in.)

Museum of Fine Arts

Boston, MA

Sargent, John Singer 
Thomas Appleton

by Sarah Goodridge

about 1830
Watercolor on ivory
8.89 x 7.24 cm (3 1/2 x 2 7/8 in.)

Museum of Fine Arts

Boston, MA

Goodridge, Sarah 
Thomas B. Clarke

by Alfred Quinton Collins

about 1898
oil on canvas
68.58 x 55.88 cm (27 x 22 in.)

Museum of Fine Arts

Boston, MA

Collins, Alfred Quinton 
Thomas Bulfinch

by Joseph Blackburn

about 1757
oil on canvas
76.2 x 66.04 cm (30 x 26 in.)

Museum of Fine Arts

Boston, MA

Blackburn, Joseph 
Thomas Dongan

by John Wollaston

between 1749–52
oil on canvas mounted on Masonite
127.32 x 101.6 cm (50 1/8 x 40 in.)

Museum of Fine Arts

Boston, MA

Wollaston, John 
Thomas Hancock

by John Smibert

1730
oil on canvas
76.2 x 63.5 cm (30 x 25 in.)

Museum of Fine Arts

Boston, MA

Smibert, Johnnotes
Born into a famiy of modest clergymen, Hancock became one of the richest and most powerful men in Boston. He commissioned this portrait and one of Lydia Henchman on the occasion of their marriage. According to Smibert's notebooks, these relatively small, three-quarter views were the cheapest portraits the artist offered, suggesting that at this point...
Thomas Ivers Cleland

by William M. S. Doyle

1815
Watercolor on ivory
8 x 6.35 cm (3 1/8 x 2 1/2 in.)

Museum of Fine Arts

Boston, MA

Doyle, William M. S. 
Three Angel Heads

by Mary Ann Willson

1800–25
Watercolor, pen and black ink, graphite pencil on paper
Sheet: 40.5 x 32.9 cm (15 15/16 x 12 15/16 in.)

Museum of Fine Arts

Boston, MA

Willson, Mary Ann 
Three Children

by John F. Francis

1840
oil on canvas
106.68 x 106.68 cm (42 x 42 in.)

Museum of Fine Arts

Boston, MA

Francis, John F.notes
ings. The luxurious surroundings proved a colorful setting for the unconventionally informal poses of the three children. Francis showed this picture at the 1840 Artists' Fund Society exhibition in Philadelphia, where it served to advertise his painting skills. He clearly was successful in attracting patronage, for he earned a handsome income from...
Timothy Matlack

by Charles Willson Peale

about 1790
oil on canvas
121.92 x 101.6 cm (48 x 40 in.)

Museum of Fine Arts

Boston, MA

Peale, Charles Willsonnotes
Peale's portrait of Timothy Matlack honors the sitter's distinguished public career. A radical Whig, Matlack played an active role in Revolutionary events in and around Philadelphia: he was the engrosser who hand-lettered the original Declaration of Independence, he led a rifle battalion at Trenton and Princeton, and he was elected to the Continental...
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