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American Artists | 6 albums

Self-Portrait, 1770—71

Works by John Singleton Copley

American Painter, 1738—1815

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Self-Portrait, 1795

Works by Charles Willson Peale

American Painter, 1741—1827

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Self-Portrait, 1828

Works by Rembrandt Peale

American Painter, 1778—1860

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Self-Portrait, c. 1778

Works by Gilbert Stuart

American Painter, 1755—1828

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Self-Portrait, 1777

Works by John Trumbull

American Painter, 1756—1843

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Thomas Jefferson, 1786

Other American Artists

Mather Brown • Ralph Earl • James Peale • Charles Peale Polk • William Rush • Edward Savage • Thomas Sully • John Vanderlyn • Benjamin West • Other American Works

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European Artists | 8 albums

Antonio Canova by Thomas Lawrence

Works by Antonio Canova

Italian Sculptor, 1757—1822

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Giuseppe Ceracchi, 1792, by John Trumbull

Works by Giuseppe Ceracchi

Italian Sculptor, 1751—1801

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Mary, Countess of Howe, c. 1764

Works by Thomas Gainsborough

English Portrait and Landscape Painter, 1727—88

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Self-Portrait, c. 1780

Works by Jean-Antoine Houdon

French Sculptor, 1741—1828

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Congress Voting Independence, 1784—88

Works by Robert Edge Pine

English Painter, 1730—88

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Self-Portrait, 1780

Works by Joshua Reynolds

English Portrait Painter, 1723—92

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George Washington, c. 1796, by James Sharples

Works by James Sharples & Family

English Painters — James (c. 1751—1811); Ellen (1769—1849); James Jr. (c. 1788—1839)

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Martha Dandridge Custis, 1757

Works by John Wollaston

English Portrait Painter, c. 1710—c. 1775

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King George III

Other European Artists

Portraits of Americans, British, French, Germans, and Spanish

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Artifacts & Other Images | 5 albums

Lantern, 1765—75; hung from North Church, Boston

Artifacts

 

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Treaty of Paris, 1783 — last page

Document Images

 

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North America after the Seven Years War, 1763

Historical Maps

 

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George Washington as Victor, 1996—97

Legacy Images

Jean Leon Gerome Ferris • Emanuel Leutze • Junius Brutus Stearns • Grant Wood • Other Legacy Images

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Monticello

Photos of Places

 

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At the end of March [1783] Franklin applied to [French Foreign Secretary] Vergennes for permission to publish a complete translation of the United States constitutions in French, the only language in which they could be widely read. He was eager to correct Europe’s misapprehensions about the new nation; he knew as well that he was offering up an advertisement for American trade and immigration.... Copies went out over the summer to the entire diplomatic corps and, in extravagantly bound editions, to Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette. The most influential of Franklin’s European publications the constitutions were universally well received.

— Stacy Schiff
A Great Improvisation: Franklin, France, and the Birth of America (2005)