Highlights From The American Collection
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John Singleton Copley, Paul Revere, 1768
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John Singleton Copley, Watson and the Shark, 1778
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Gilbert Stuart, Portrait of George Washington, 1796
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Fitz Hugh Lane, Owl's Head, Penobscot Bay, Maine, 1862
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Frederic Church, Rainy Season in the Tropics, 1866
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William Morris Hunt, Niagara Falls, c. 1878
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John Singer Sargent, The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit 1882
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Winslow Homer, The Fog Warning, 1885
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