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Portrait of 18C American Woman by a Garden Fountain
;1763 John Singleton Copley (Colonial American artist, 1738-1815). Mary Turner (Mrs. Daniel Sargent).By the 18C in colonial America, artists sometimes portrayed women & girls, often the eligible...
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Ideas on Civility for Congress - Publisher’s wife, Margaret Bayard Smith had...
Thomas Jefferson by Thaddeus KosciuszkoI abhor the lack of civility in our recent political activities. I remember that Thomas Jefferson was concerned about decorum and process in our Congress, most...
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1800 American Mother & Child
1800 Richard Brunton (fl 1790-1832) Mrs Reuben Humphreys of East Granby, Connecticut
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Lady Washington - Martha 1731-1802
1771-81 Lady Washington Attributed to Samuel Blyth (English, 1744-1795)As some of the British referred to her, Lady Washington - Martha Dandridge Custis Washington was born at Chestnut Grove in New...
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1753 American Mother & Child
1753-54 John Wollaston (fl 1736-1767). Mrs Daniel Carroll II (1731-1763) & Daniel Carroll 1752-1790.
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10-Year-Old Nova Scotia Girl Learning about Proper Tea Ettiquite at Finishing...
Anna Green Winslow (1759-1779) was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, the daughter of Joshua Winslow & his wife Anna Green. In 1770, at the age of 10, she was sent south to a finishing school in Boston,...
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1739 Tales about Older Women & Scoundrels in Benjamin Franklin's Pennsylvania...
In the 18C American colonies, unmarried woman & widows could accumulate money & property in their names; but as soon as they married, all of their assets became the property of their...
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1790s Portrait of an American Family
1790s Josè Francisco Xavier de Salazar y Mendoza (Mexican-born Louisiana artist, 1750–1802) Family of Dr. Joseph Montegut of New OrleansFamily portraits are rare in the early 18C British American...
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Waterside in 18C America
American Fireboard, 1790 Comtemplation by the Shore Probably Massachusetts Artist Unknown
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1788 American Mother & Child
1788 Ralph Earl (1751-1801). Martha Tennent (Mrs David Rogers) and Son.Martha Tennent (1751-1813) was the daughter of Rev. Charles & Martha Tennent of Buckingham, Maryland. She married David Rogers...
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Abigail & John Adams disagreed about women's suffrage
Abigail Smith Adams (1744-1818) was a smart, independent woman who said what she believed. Although she had strong feelings about women having an equal voice in the new United States of America, women...
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1766 American Mother & Child
1786 Robert Edge Pine (1720-30-1788) Dorcas Spear (Mrs. William Patterson) and Child.
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People & Deer in 18C America
1712 Justus Englehardt Kuhn (fl in Maryland 1708-1717). Charles Carroll of Annapolis (1702 - 1782).In colonial British America, the sons of gentry were painted with deer pets, while their elders often...
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First Lady Abigail Adams had the wash hung in the unfinished East Room of The...
Abigail Adams Supervises the Hanging of the Laundry in the Unfinished East Room of the White House, painting by Gordon Phillips sometime around 1950.When the 2nd US President John Adams family moved...
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1799 American Mother & Child
1799 Joshua Johnson (American artist, 1763-1826) Mrs John Moale (Ellen North) & Ellin
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Abigail Smith Adams 1744-1818 At Home, Often Without Husband John
Abigail Smith was born on November 11, 1744, in Weymouth, Massachusetts, the 2nd child of Elizabeth Quincy Smith & the Reverend William Smith. Her father was pastor of Weymouth's North Parish...
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1790 American Mother & Child
1790 Ralph Earl (1751-1801). Mary Floyd (Mrs. Benjamin Tallmadge) with Son Henry Floyd and Daughter Maria Jones.
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American Biography - 1733 Woman's hilarious tale of her husband & the healing...
1720s Joseph van Aken (1699-1749) Detail A Family at TeaThis story about the miraculous virtues of tea was printed in the 1733 Pennsylvania Gazette. Tea was reportedly introduced into the British...
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1790 American Mother & Child
1790 Ralph Earl (1751-1801). Abigail Starr (Mrs. William Taylor) and Son Daniel.
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