art section 2: people

Patience Wright

A fire destroyed her studio in 1771, destroying many of her artworks

Gilbert Stuart

Apprenticed with a limner

Susanna Wheatley

Arranged for Phillis Wheatley's emancipation

Gilbert Stuart

Arrived in Philadelphia with a plan to paint the president's portrait

Phillis Wheatley

Arrived to Boston on a slave ship called Phillis

Sarah Moorhead

Art teacher who likely taught Scipio Moorhead to draw and paint

Anthony van Dyck

Artist of the 1636 Portrait of Portrait of Charles I

Hyacinthe Rigaud

Artist of the 1701 Portrait of Louis XIV

Pierre Drevet

Artist of the engraving of Bishop Jacques Benigne Bossuet

Prudence Punderson

Artist of The First, Second, and Last Scene of Mortality

John Singleton Copley

Artist of the portrait of Dorothy Quincy (Mrs. John Hancock)

Robert Edge Pine

Artist of the portrait of Patience Wright

Gilbert Stuart

Artist of The Skater

Benjamin West

Asked Copley to come to London to learn the European painting tradition

Patience Wright

Asked George Washington to sit for a portrait sculpture

George Washington

Asked Wheatley to visit him in Cambridge

Phillis Wheatley

Author of "Liberty and Peace, a Poem," commemorating the end of the Revolutionary War

John Milton, Alexander Pope, Virgil, Ovid, and Homer

Authors who Phillis Wheatley was familiar with

Patience Wright

Became famous for her portrait sculptures and waxwork

Patience Wright

Born in 1725 in Bordentown, New Jersey

Phillis Wheatley

Born in Gambia in 1753

Gilbert Stuart

Born in Newport, Rhode Island

Prudence Punderson

Born in Preston, Connecticut

John Singleton Copley

Bought a house next to THE John Hancock on Beacon Hill

Patience Wright

Called William Pitt a "guardian angel" of America

Scipio Moorhead

Commissioned to paint a portrait of Phillis Wheatley

William Bingham

Commissioner of the Lansdowne Portrait

Samuel Prescott

Completed the mission of alerting the residents of Concord that the British were coming

John Smibert

Copley purchased the contents of this artist's studio

Peter Pelham

Copley took over his studio when he thirteen

Richard Clarke

Copley's father-in-law

Peter Pelham

Copley's stepfather

Kiki Smith

Created artwork to be displayed at the Brooklyn Museum of Art

Kiki Smith

Created the installation Sojourn, inspired by Punderson's artwork

Phillis Wheatley

Dedicated a poem to Scipio Moorhead

Scipio Moorhead

Described as possessing an "extraordinary genius"

Phillis Wheatley

Died at the age of 31 after giving birth to her third child

Susanna Wheatley

Died in 1774

John and Mary Wheatley

Died in 1778 (two people)

John Hancock

Dorothy Quincy's husband

Paul Revere

Engraved a drawing of the Boston Massacre by Henry Pelham

Reverend John Moorhead

Enslaver of Scipio Moorhead

Robert Edge Pine

Excluded from the British Royal Academy of Art because of his sympathy for American independence

Gilbert Stuart

Exhibited art at the Royal Academy in 1782

Prudence Punderson

Father was a loyalist, family goods were confiscated in 1778

John Hancock

First governor of Massachusetts

John Hancock

First signer of the Declaration of Independence

Gilbert Stuart

Fled to Ireland to escape debtors

Prudence Punderson

Fled to Long Island during the Revolutionary War

Susanna Wheatley

Found a patron for Wheatley's first book of poetry

Mary Ball Washington

George Washington's mother

Patience Wright

Grew up on a farm with Quaker parents

George Washington

Had a pale complexion

Patience Wright

Her clients included the lieutenant governor of New York

Madame Tussaud

Her famous waxwork display is associated more with popular entertainment than fine art

Phillis Wheatley

Her first poem was published in Rhode Island's Newport Mercury

Phillis Wheatley

Her last name was assigned by the family who enslaved her

Dorothy Quincy

Her portrait is similar to Phillis Wheatley's

Prudence Punderson

Her work is considered one of the earliest self portraits by an American woman artist

Scipio Moorhead

His artistic services were advertised in the Boston Newsletter

Gilbert Stuart

His extravagant lifestyle frequently got him in trouble

Paul Revere

His father was a French Huguenot

Gilbert Stuart

His father was a Scottish immigrant who manufactured snuff

Gilbert Stuart

His portrait of Washington became the most known depiction of the president

King George III

Invited Patience Wright to his palace for a portrait sitting despite her criticisms of him

Paul Jennings

James Madison's personal servant

Richard Copley

John Singleton Copley's father

Mary Singleton Copley

John Singleton Copley's mother

Susanna Wheatley

John Wheatley's wife

Paul Revere

Joined the Sons of Liberty

John Singleton Copley

Left America for London in 1774

Gilbert Stuart

Left America to study art in England in 1777

Gilbert Stuart

Left for America in 1782 to avoid debtor's prison

Scipio Moorhead

Likely artist of the Phillis Wheatley portrait

Richard Clarke

Loyalist whose cargo was tossed into Boston Harbor during the Boston Tea Party

Patience Wright

May have passed political information onto Benjamin Franklin in Paris

John Wheatley

Merchant that Phillis Wheatley was sold to

Patience Wright

Moved to London in 1772

Patience Wright

Moved to New York in order to reach a wider clientele

Patience Wright

Moved to Philadelphia when she was twenty

Prudence Punderson

Oldest of 8 children

Scipio Moorhead

One of the earliest known African American artists of the colonial era

Martha Washington

Original commissioner of the Athenaeum Portrait of Washington

Robert Edge Pine

Painted Benjamin Franklin's portrait while he was in London

Gilbert Stuart

Painted more than a hundred portraits of Washington

John Singleton Copley

Painter of A Boy with a Flying Squirrel

John Singleton Copley

Painter of Watson and the Shark

Deborah Hitchborn

Part of an established Boston family that owned a shipping wharf

Sir William Pitt, Earl of Chatham

Patience Wright's sculpture of this person is found in the collection of Westminster Abbey

Rachel Wells

Patience Wright's sister

Apollos Rivoire

Paul Revere's father

Deborah Hitchborn

Paul Revere's mother

Joseph Wright

Philadelphia cooper who Patience Lovell married

George Whitefield

Phillis Wheatley published an elegiac poem about this preacher

George Washington

Phillis Wheatley sent him a poem written in his honor during the Revolutionary War

Susanna Wheatley

Phillis Wheatley was originally going to work in the house for this person

John Peters

Phillis Wheatley's husband

Scipio Moorhead

Phillis Wheatley's neighbor

John Avery

Phillis Wheatley's slave dealer

Patience Wright

Planned to create a series of monuments honoring the heroes of the Revolutionary War