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51 Cards in this Set
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Mrs Nathaniel Ellery (Ann Sargent) Copley 1766 |
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Nicholas Boylston Copley 1767 |
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Paul Revere Copley 1768 |
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Self Portrait Copley 1770 |
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Self Portrait Benjamin West 1770 |
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Portrait of Mrs West with Son Raphael West 1773 |
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Apollo Belvedere |
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Laocoon |
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Death of General Wolfe West 1770 |
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William Penn's Treaty with the Indians West 1771 |
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Watson and the Shark Copley 1778 |
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George Washington at the Battle of Princeton Charles Wilson Peale 1779-82 |
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George Washington (the Lansdowne Portrait) Gilbert Stuart 1797 |
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George Washington (Atheneaum Portrait) Gilbert Stuart 1796 |
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The Artist in His Museum Charles Wilson Peale 1822 |
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The Staircase Group Charles Wilson Peale 1795 |
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The Exhumation of the mastodon Charles Wilson Peale 1806-08 |
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The Architect's Dream Thomas Cole 1840 |
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Daniel Boone (1734-1820) Sitting at the Door of His Cabin on Great Osage lake, Kentucky Thomas Cole 1826 |
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Kaaterskill Falls Thomas Cole 1826 |
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View near Catskill Village Thomas Cole 1827 |
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Garden of Eden Thomas Cole 1828 |
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Expulsion from the Garden of Eden Thomas Cole 1827-28 |
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Amerigo Vespucci Landing in America Jan Van der Street 1587-1590 |
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Town of Pomeiock(Pomeiock, outer banks, North Carolina) John White 1585-87 |
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A Wife of an Indian Chief of Pomeioc and her Daughter of age of 8 or 10 years John White 1585-87 |
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An Indian Chief, Painted for a Great Solemn Gathering John White 1585-87 |
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A Festive Celebration John White 1585-87 |
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Indians Fishing John White 1585-87 |
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John Freake Freake Limner 1671-74 |
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Mrs Elizabeth Freake and Baby Mary Freake Limner 1674(possibly painted in 1671before baby) |
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Henry Darnall III Justus Engelhardt Kuhn 1710 |
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Eleanor Darnall Justus Engelhard Kuhn 1710 |
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The Gore Children Copley 1755 |
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Boy with a Squirrel Copley 1765 |
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Samuel Quincy Copley 1767 |
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Miss Hannah Hill (Mrs Samuel Quincy) Copley 1761? |
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"could become one of the greatest artist's in world, provided he came to europebefore it was too late and his manner and taste were corrupted by working in your little way in boston" |
Reynolds to Copley |
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purpose of painting was to exalt our species; we conceive a better opinion of the beauty, good sense, breeding and other good qualities of a person" |
Essay on theory of Painting John Richardson 1715 |
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color, manners, and costume were variable but the form of man has been fixed by eternal laws and must therefore be immutable |
West |
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Noble simplicity and sedate grandeur |
Grand Manner/ Neoclassicism JJ Winckelmann 1717-68 |
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I forsee the picture will become not only the most popular but occasion a revolution in the art of history painting |
Reynolds on the Death of General Wolfe |
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the event to be commemorated happened in the year 1758 in a region of the world unknown to the greeks and romans and at a period in time where no warriors who wore such costumes existed...I want to mark the place, the time, the people and to do this I must abide by truth |
West on the Death of General Wolfe |
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The first of american animals in the first of american museums |
Peale on the Mastodon |
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I possess thousands of specimens yet thousands are still wanting, in fact it ought to be as a museum as a collection of everything useful or curious- a world in miniature |
Peale |
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I think it is important that I should not only make it a lasting monument of my art as a painter but also that the design should be expressive that i bring forth into public view the beauties of nature and art, the rise of progress and the museum |
Peale to board of trustees of philidelphia museum who commissioned portrait |
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We are still in eden, the wall that shuts us out of the garden is our own folly |
Cole |
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I must wait for a time to draw a veil over the common details, the unessential parts, which shall leave the great features, whether beautiful or sublime, dominant in the mind. The subject of art should be pure and lofty, an impressive lesson taught, an important scene illustrated, a moral, religious, or poetic effect produced on the mind |
Cole |
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copper hearted business men |
cole |
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higher sort of landscape painting |
cole |
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Mr Richard Mather Limner 1670 |
