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.

American artillery captain John Henry, the twenty-year-old son of Virginia governor Patrick Henry, had distinguished himself in battle [at Saratoga in 1777]. After the cataclysm died down, he wandered the field, staring at the faces, the blue lips, dead staring eyes and glistening teeth, of men he had known. The sight unhinged him. He broke his sword in half and went raving mad. He disappeared for months and never fought again.

— Jack Kelly
Band of Giants: The Amateur Soldiers Who Won America’s Independence (2014)