Painter

Mather Brown

Self-Portrait, 1812
American painter, active in England; 1761—1831.

John Singleton Copley

Self-Portrait, 1770—71
American painter, principally active in London after 1774; 1738—1815.

Ralph Earl

Landscape View of Old Bennington, 1798
American painter; 1751—1801.

Charles Willson Peale

Self-Portrait, 1795
American painter, soldier; created first American museum; 1741—1827.

Rembrandt Peale

Self-Portrait, 1828
American painter, son of Charles Willson Peale; 1778—1860.

Gilbert Stuart

Self-Portrait, c. 1785
American painter of quintessential portraits, including George Washington; 1755—1828.

Thomas Sully

Portrait of the Artist, 1821
British-born painter, mainly of portraits, extended the iconography of the Revolution and the Founding Fathers into the 19th century; 1783—1872.

John Trumbull

Self-Portrait, 1777
American artist, soldier at the Battle of Trenton; 1756—1843.

John Vanderlyn

Portrait of the Artist, 1800
American artist, worked in Philadelphia under Gilbert Stuart, protégé of Aaron Burr; 1775—1852.

Benjamin West

Self-Portait, 1770—76
American-born painter who moved to England in 1763; 1738—1820.

Paine’s pamphlet Common Sense (1775), urging the colonies to declare their independence, found 150,000 purchasers in a population of less than 3 million — the equivalent today of a sale of 14 million.

— Richard Brookhiser
Gentleman Revolutionary: Gouverneur Morris, the Rake Who Wrote the Constitution (2003)