Painter

Mather Brown

American painter, active in England; 1761—1831.

John Singleton Copley

American painter, principally active in London after 1774; 1738—1815.

Charles Willson Peale

American painter, soldier; created first American museum; 1741—1827.

Rembrandt Peale

American painter, son of Charles Willson Peale; 1778—1860.

Gilbert Stuart

American painter of quintessential portraits, including George Washington; 1755—1828.

Thomas Sully

British-born painter, mainly of portraits, extended the iconography of the Revolution and the Founding Fathers into the 19th century; 1783—1872.

John Trumbull

American artist, soldier at the Battle of Trenton; 1756—1843.

John Vanderlyn

American artist, worked in Philadelphia under Gilbert Stuart, protégé of Aaron Burr; 1775—1852.

Benjamin West

American-born painter who moved to England in 1763; 1738—1820.

Despite deceptive appearances, the British were far from luxuriating in Philadelphia while Washington and his army suffered at Valley Forge. Every public building was used to house two thousand sick and wounded British and Hessian soldiers. The army was placed on half-rations, and there was a shortage of medical and hospital supplies that caused tension between the British and the Hessians. Unable to obtain supplies, the city became a prison for as many as fifty thousand inhabitants and troops.

— Andrew Jackson O’Shaughnessy

The Men Who Lost America: British Leadership, the American Revolution, and the Fate of the Empire (2013)