Rick Atkinson - 14 May

Johan Joseph Zoffany, George III, oil on canvas, 1771. (Royal Collection Trust / Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2018)

John Clevely, George III Reviewing the Fleet at Spithead, 22 June 1773, watercolor, 1773. ( National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London)

John Russell, Frederick North, 2nd Earl of Guilford, oil on canvas, c. 1765-68. (Private collection/Bridgeman Images)

Nathaniel Hone I, William Legge (17311801), Second Earl of Dartmouth, oil on canvas, 1777. (Courtesy of Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College. Gift of Earle W. Newton, P.960.100)

Jan Josef Horemans II, Tea Time, oil on canvas, second half of eighteenth century.

John Collet, Scene in a London Street, oil on canvas, 1770. (Courtesy Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection)

Christian Schussele, Franklin before the Lords Council, Whitehall Chapel, London, 1774, engraved by Robert Whitechurch, c. 1859. (Courtesy Library of Congress)

Rudolf Ackermann et al, House of Commons from Microcosm of London, 180810. (Courtesy British Library)

Johan Joseph Zoffany, George III, Queen Charlotte, and Their Six Eldest Children, oil on canvas, 1770. (Royal Collection Trust / Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2018)

Gold State Coach, gilded and painted wood, leather, 1762. (Photograph, Royal Collection Trust / Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2018)

Thomas Bowles, A View of St. Jamess Palace Pall Mall, engraving, 1771. (Courtesy Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection)

John Singleton Copley, General Thomas Gage, oil on canvas, c. 1768. (Courtesy Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection)

John Singleton Copley, Mrs. Thomas Gage, oil on canvas, 1771. (Putnam Foundation, Timken Museum of Art)

John Trumbull, Benjamin Franklin, oil on wood, 1778. (Courtesy Yale University Art Gallery)

John Singleton Copley, Paul Revere, oil on canvas, 1768. (Photograph Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)

John Singleton Copley, Joseph Warren, (unfinished), oil on canvas, c. 1772. (Courtesy National Park Service, Adams National Historical Park)

Thomas Sully, after Charles Willson Peale. Major General Artemas Ward, oil on canvas, c. 1830-40. (Collection of the Massachusetts Historical Society)

Dominique C. Fabronius, Maj. Gen. Israel Putnam. He dared to lead where any dared to follow, lithograph, c. 1864. (Courtesy Library of Congress)

John Stark, date unknown. (Courtesy Print Collection, New York Public Library)

Gilbert Stuart, Hugh Percy, Second Duke of Northumberland, oil on canvas, c. 1788. (Courtesy High Museum of Art, Atlanta)

Amos Doolittle, A View of the Town of Concord, plate II, engraving, Dec. 1775, reprint by Charles E. Goodspeed, 1903.

Henry A. Thomas, The Battle at Bunkers Hill, lithograph, c. 1875. (Courtesy Library of Congress)

Charles Willson Peale, George Washington, oil on canvas, 1776. (Courtesy Brooklyn Museum, Dick S. Ramsay Fund)

Charles Peale Polk, copy after Charles Willson Peale, Henry Knox, oil on canvas, after 1783. (Courtesy National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution)

Washingtons Headquarters, Cambridge, date unknown. (Courtesy Print Collection, New York Public Library)

Nathaniel Hone, George Sackville Germain, 1st Viscount Sackville, oval portrait, 1760. ( National Portrait Gallery, London)

Joshua Reynolds, John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore, oil on canvas, 1765. (National Galleries Scotland)

H. B. Hall after John Trumbull, Benedict Arnold, engraving, published after 1879. (Courtesy National Archives, 532921)

Ph. Schuyler, date unknown. (Courtesy Print Collection, New York Public Library)

Alonzo Chappel, Richd. Montgomery, engraving by George R. Hall, 1881. (Courtesy Print Collection, New York Public Library)

Eyving H. de Dirkine Holmfield, Guy Carleton, oil on canvas, c. 1895. ( Chteau Ramezay, Historic Site and Museum of Montral)

Quebec in 1775, date unknown. (Courtesy Print Collection, New York Public Library)

John Trumbull, The Death of General Montgomery in the Attack on Quebec, December 31, 1775, oil on canvas, 1786. (Courtesy Yale University Art Gallery)

Chteau Ramezay, artist and date unknown. ( Chteau Ramezay, Historic Site and Museum of Montral)

James Peale, Horatio Gates, oil on canvas, copy after Charles Willson Peale, 1782. (Courtesy National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution)

Gen. Sir William Howe, date unknown. (Courtesy Print Collection, New York Public Library)

John Burgoyne, date unknown. (Courtesy National Archives, 532920)

Michael Angelo Wageman, Genl. Howe Evacuating Boston, engraving by John Godfrey, 1861. (Courtesy Anne S. K. Brown Military Collection, Brown University Library)

John Singleton Copley, Admiral Richard Howe, 1st Earl Howe, oil on canvas, 1794. ( National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Caird Collection)

Archibald Robertson, View of the Narrows between Long Island & Staten Island with our fleet at anchor, etc., ink and wash on paper, 1776. (Courtesy New York Public Library, Spencer Collection)

Allan Ramsay, Flora Macdonald, oil on canvas, 1749. (Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archeology, University of Oxford)

Sir Henry Clinton, date unknown. (Courtesy Print Collection, New York Public Library)

Gen. Lord Cornwallis, date unknown. (Courtesy Print Collection, New York Public Library)

Major Gen.l Charles Lee, date unknown. (Courtesy Print Collection, New York Public Library)

45.Charles Willson Peale, William Moultrie, oil on canvas, 1782. (National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution. Transfer from the National Gallery of Art, gift of the A. W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust, 1942)

Slave auction notice, 1760. (The Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas, website for Virginia Foundation for the Humanities. Original source: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-10293)

Thomas Leitch, A view of Charles-Town, the capital of South Carolina