Room 221

American Portraiture

1738–1828, North America (Boston, Philadelphia), England (London), Neoclassicism

John Singleton Copley and Gilbert Stuart painted the people of the young United States: merchants, their families and the founders of the republic. Copley moved to London in 1774, where he also painted large history pictures. Stuart created the best-known portraits of George Washington – one of them still appears on the one-dollar bill.

All works

• The Skater (Portrait of William Grant)
• The Copley Family
• Watson and the Shark
• Catherine Brass Yates (Mrs. Richard Yates)
• Eleanor Parke Custis Lewis (Mrs. Lawrence Lewis)
• Eleazer Tyng
• Abigail Smith Babcock (Mrs. Adam Babcock)
• Elizabeth Gray Otis (Mrs. Samuel Alleyne Otis)
• George Washington
• William Thornton
• George Washington
• James Monroe
• Thomas Jefferson
• Thomas Amory II
• Edward Shippen
• George Washington
• George Washington (Vaughan portrait)
• Dr. William Hartigan (?)
• Horace Binney
• Joseph Coolidge
• Stephen Van Rensselaer III
• Captain Joseph Anthony
• John Jay
• Sir John Dick
• Lawrence Reid Yates
• Luke White
• Anne Fairchild Bowler (Mrs. Metcalf Bowler)
• George Washington (Vaughan-Sinclair portrait)
• Ann Calvert Stuart Robinson (Mrs. William Robinson)
• John Adams
• Abigail Smith Adams (Mrs. John Adams)
• The Death of the Earl of Chatham
• Sarah Homes Tappan (Mrs. Benjamin Tappan)
• George Washington
• Catherine Yates Pollock (Mrs. George Pollock)
• Ann Barry