Artists in the British colonies and early United States looked to Europe for inspiration.
1607–1820 C.E.
Artists in the British colonies and early United States looked to Europe for inspiration.
1607–1820 C.E.
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Lack of an American sculptural tradition compelled Jefferson to look to France for this portrait of Washington.
A Jewish family in early New York
A founding myth for Pennsylvania and for the United States
"We have met the enemy and they are ours." The battle that turned the War of 1812
On the eve of the American Revolution, a glimpse of politics in portraiture
How a portrait of an African Muslim came to hang side-by-side with the founding fathers in one of America's earliest museums.
Global trade in a cup of tea: Colonial America, sugar and slavery.
Jefferson’s “academical village” for living and learning is crowned by a building inspired by the Pantheon.
Trumbull traveled up and down the Eastern Seaboard to paint the members of the Continental Congress from life.