Portraits
Two portraits, possibly painted/drawn from life, are known. The circa-1770-to-1785, oil-on-canvas painting shown above was donated to the Sons of the Revolution in the State of New York in 1913, and has hung in Fraunces Tavern Museum ever since.
A drawing attributed to John Trumbull was in possession of a descendant in 1900. The engraving shown at right, based on that drawing, was published in Alice Morse Earle, Stagecoach and Tavern Days (1900).
A copy of the oil-on-canvas portrait was painted in 2002 for the restaurant at Fraunces Tavern, and is viewable on Flickr.
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