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Lewis Morris

by John Wollaston

ca. 1750
oil on canvas
30 x 25 in.

Smithsonian Institution

New York, NY

Wollaston, Johnnotes
Description: Portrait of Lewis Morris standing with his body turned to the right and his head turned to face the viewer. He wears a dark jacket and a light vest with a white shirt.
Lucretia Coffin Mott

by Joseph Kyle

1842
oil on canvas
30 x 25 in. (76.2 x 63.5 cm)

Smithsonian Institution

New York, NY

Kyle, Josephnotes
Description: Portrait of Lucretia Mott seated with her body turned to the left, her gaze directed off to the left, and her arms folded across her chest. She wears a lace cap and around her shoulders she wears a shaw over her dark dress.
Margaret Brown Stone

by Robert Edge Pine

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

Smithsonian Institution

New York, NY

Pine, Robert Edge 
Niagara Falls

by Frederic Edwin Church

March 1856.
Oil.
Approx. 11 x 17 in. (cm. 27.9 x 43.2)

Smithsonian Institution

New York, NY

Church, Frederic Edwin 
Patience Lovell Wright

by Robert Edge Pine

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

Smithsonian Institution

New York, NY

Pine, Robert Edgenotes
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...
Portrait of a Girl

by Thomas Wilmer Dewing

1905
Oil on wood panel.
45.9 x 49.3 cm.

Smithsonian Institution

New York, NY

Dewing, Thomas Wilmer 
Robert Morris

by Robert Edge Pine

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

Pine, Robert Edgenotes
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...
Ruins of the Temple of Buccus, Baalbek, Syria

by Frederic Edwin Church

1868.
Oil.
Approx. 10 x 11 in. (cm. 25.4 x 27.9)

Smithsonian Institution

New York, NY

Church, Frederic Edwin 
Salmon Portland Chase

by Francis B. Carpenter

1861.
oil on canvas.
12 x 10 in. (30.5 x 25.4 cm).

Smithsonian Institution

New York, NY

Carpenter, Francis B. 
Self-portrait, 1894

by Cecilia Beaux

1894
Oil on canvas
25 x 20 in. (63.5 x 50.8 cm)

Smithsonian Institution

New York, NY

Beaux, Cecilia 
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