Art

portraiture that was very linear with intricate costume details

portrait with sober colors & rich materials (Protestant work ethic)

portrait featuring a window w/ Dutch & English ships (Smith's merchant company) & hand resting on skul (memento mori)

learned to paint from stepfather Peter Pelham, painted Boy With a Squirrel & Paul Revere

Copley piece that caught the attnetion of Benjamin West at Society of Artists of the United Kingdom

engraved Boston Massacre (originally by Henry Pelham), silversmith who led Sons of Liberty

enslaved poet who became popular for works on religion

likely created Portrait of Phillis Wheatley, enslaved to a reverend, most well-known African-American colonial artist

patronized & helped publish Phillis Wheatley's works

embroidered The First, Second, & Last Scene of Mortality

only real form of creative expression for women during the Revolutionary period

wax sculptor who modeled small busts & cameos of important figures of the time

painted Patience Lovell Wright with wax in her lap in reference to her molding process

studied art in England under Benjamin West, exhibited The Skater at The Royal Academy which earned commissions, painted The Lansdowne Portrait, massive debt

painting of George Washington using Athenaeum portrait face & commissioned by Senator William Bingham (PA) as gift to Marquis of Lansdowne; pose based on Bishop Jacques Bossuet, 3 copies (1 in White House East Room)

seen as highest form of art in Europe (next was portraiture, genre paintng, landscape, then still life)

founded The Royal Academy

Benjamin West painting which introduced contemporary history paintings; Wolfe's death at Battle of Quebec, lamentation body positioning

president of the American Academy of Fine Arts, made history paintings of the Revolutionary War

one of three hides painted by Pueblo Indians & commissioned by Spanish; showcases battle where Spain was defeated in Nebraska by Skidi Pawnees & Otoes

European technique featured in Segesser II of overlapping figures

Quaker who learned to color-mix from Indians & copied engravings to draw, sutdiend at Benjamin Franklin's College of PA & studied art in Europe, trained many American artists, 2nd president of the Royal Academy

Benjamin West painting depicting William Penn's (likely fictional) arrival in PA to meet with Delaware tribes (Treaty of Shackamaxon)

immigrated from Germany & studied under John Rubens Smith, painted Washington Crossing the Delaware, went to Germany in support of 1848 revolts

celebrated 50th anniversary of Washington's death & depicts battle on xmas night

painted Struggle... From the History of the American People as a play on Washington Crossing Delaware, showcased true bloodshed of American Revolution

painted George Washington Carver Crossing the Delaware, filled the painting with black caricatures as a play on the forgotten pieces of American history

born into slavery & became a landowner after emancipation, created Bible Quilt & Pictorial Quilt

Jefferson-designed home using Palladian style (Renaissance symmetry), looks to be 1 story but is truly 3