Charlestown Stone Cutter, Gravestone of Joseph Tapping, 1678, King’s Chapel, Boston, MA

Anonymous (The Freake-Gibbs Painter), Mrs. Elizabeth Freake and Baby Mary, ca. 1674, oil on canvas, 42 ½ x 36 ¾”, Worcester Art Museum

John Smibert, The Bermuda Group (Dean Berkeley and His Entourage), 1728, reworked 1739, Oil on canvas, 69 1/2 x 93 in., Yale University Art Gallery

John Singleton Copley, Mrs. Joseph Mann, 1753, 36 x 28 1/4 in, oil on canvas, Boston, MFA

John Singleton Copley, Boy with a Squirrel (Henry Pelham), 1765, oil on canvas, 30 3/8 x 25 1/8 in.), MFA, Boston

John Singleton Copley, Portrait of Paul Revere, ca. 1768–1770. Oil on canvas, 2’ 11 1/8” x 2’ 4”. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

John Singleton Copley, Watson and the Shark, 1778, oil on canvas, 71 11/16 x 90 7/16 in., National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

John Singleton Copley, The Collapse of the Earl of Chatham in the House of Lords, April 7, 1778, 1779-80, oil on canvas, 2286 x 3073 mm, Tate Britain, London

Benjamin West, Agrippina Landing at Brundisium with the Ashes of Germanicus , oil on canvas, 1768, 5’5”x 7’10”, New Haven, CT, Yale University Art Gallery

Benjamin West, Death of General Wolfe, 1770. Oil on canvas, approx. 4’ 11” x 7’ National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa (gift of the Duke of Westminster, 1918). 

Benjamin West, William Penn’s Treaty with the Indians, 1771-72, oil on canvas, 75 ½ x 107 ¾ in., Pennsylavania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia

Benjamin West, The Cave of Despair, 1772, oil on canvas, 24 x 30’, Yale Center for British Art

Benjamin West, Last Supper, 1786, oil on canvas, 8’ 1/16”  x 11 ¾”., Detroit Institute of Arts
Sold by canons of Windsor in 1978

Benjamin West, Death on a Pale Horse, 1796, oil on canvas, 23 3/8 x 50 5/8 in., Detroit Institute of Arts

Benjamin West, The Death of Lord Nelson, 1806, oil on canvas, 71.9 x 97.4 in., National Museums Liverpool

What year was the Royal Academy in London founded?

1768

What was the name of the 1st permanent English colony in North America? And when was it founded?

Jamestown, 1607

When does Columbus return to the New World to begin colonization?

First sails in 1492, but returns in 1493

When do the Pilgrims arrive at Plymouth? And when was the first Thanksgiving?

1620, Fall of 1621

When do the Puritans found Massachusetts Bay Colony?

1630, and later becomes Boston

When does New Amsterdam become New York?

1664

Who establishes Pennsylvania and when?

William Penn, 1682

Date of Boston Tea Party?

December 16, 1773

Date of Lexington & Concord?

April 19, 1775

Date of Battle of Bunker Hill?

June 17, 1775

Date of Declaration of Independence ratification?

July 4, 1776

Date of Battle of Trenton?

December 26, 1776

Dates of Battle of Princeton?

January 2-3, 1777

What year was the Treaty of Alliance with King Louis XVI of France signed?

1778

When was the Treaty of Paris signed?

November 30, 1782

Date of King George III's capitulation speech to the House of Lords?

December 5, 1782

Presidencies (3 presidents) from 1789 to 1809?

George Washington, 1789-1797

John Adams, 1797-1801

Thomas Jefferson, 1801-1809

Charles Willson Peale, Portrait of John Beale Bordley, 1770, 79 1/16 x 58 1/16 in., oil on canvas, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

Charles Willson Peale, George Washington  after the Battle of Princeton,  1779, oil on canvas, 93 x 58 1/2 in., Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia

Charles Willson Peale, Staircase Group (Portrait of Raphaelle Peale and Titian Ramsay Peale I),  1795, oil on canvas, 7 feet 5 1/2 in. x 39 3/8 in., Philadelphia Museum of Art

Charles Willson Peale, Exhumation of the Mastodon, 1806, oil on canvas, 50 × 62.5 in, Peale Museum, Baltimore MD

Charles Willson Peale, The Artist in His Museum, 1822, oil on canvas, 103 3/4 x 79 7/8 in., Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia

Gilbert Stuart, Portrait of Benjamin West, 1785, oil on canvas, 35 1/2 in. x 27 1/2 in. National Portrait Gallery, London

Gilbert Stuart, The Skater (Portrait of William Grant), 1782, oil on canvas, 96 5/8 x 58 1/16 in, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

Gilbert Stuart, Portrait of George Washington, (The “Vaughan Type") 1795, oil on canvas, 28 3/4 x 23 13/16 in., National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

Gilbert Stuart, George Washington
(The Athenaeum Portrait), 1796, oil on canvas, 47 3/4 x 37 in., MFA Boston & Smithsonian

Gilbert Stuart, Portrait of George Washington, (The “Landsdowne Type") 1796, oil on canvas, 97 1/2 x 62 1/2"., National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC

Gilbert Stuart, John Adams,  1824, oil on canvas, 30 x 25 in., .Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

John Trumbull, Priam Returning  to His Family with the Dead Body of Hector, 1785, 24¾ x 36¾ in.,  oil on canvas,Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond

John Trumbull, Death of General Warren at the Battle of Bunker’s Hill, June 17, 1775, 1786, oil on canvas, 25 5/8 x 37 5/8 in., Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven

John Trumbull, The Declaration of Independence, ca. 1786-1820, 20 7/8 x 31 in., oil on canvas, Yale University Art Gallery

 John Trumbull, The Declaration of Independence, 1817-1826, 12 x 18’, oil on canvas, Rotunda of the United States Capitol Building, Washington, DC

John Trumbull, The Surrender of General Burgoyne, 1817-26, 12 x 18’, oil on canvas, Rotunda of the United States Capitol Building, Washington, DC

Thomas Jefferson, Monticello, Charlottesville, VA, 1770–1806.

Thomas Jefferson, Rotunda and Lawn, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, 1819-1826.

Raphaelle Peale, Still Life with Strawberries, Nuts, etc., 1822, oil on panel, 16 3/16 x 22 3/4 in. Art Institute of Chicago

Raphaelle Peale, Venus Rising From the Sea - A Deception, ca. 1822 , oil on canvas, 29 1/8 x 24 1/8 in, Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO 

Rembrandt Peale, Portrait of Rubens Peale with a
Geranium, 1801, oil on canvas, 28 1/8 x 24 in, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

Rembrandt Peale, Portrait of Thomas Jefferson,
1800, oil on canvas, White House Historical Association, Washington DC

Rembrandt Peale, Portrait of George Washington (“Patriae Pater”) [Father of His Country], 1824, 71.5 x 53.25 in., oil on canvas, United States Congress, Washington DC

John Vanderlyn, Ariadne Asleep on the Island of Naxos, 1809-14, oil on canvas, 68 1/2 x 87 in., Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art

John Vanderlyn, Landing of Columbus at the Island of Guanahani, West Indies, 12 October 1492, 1836-47, oil on canvas, Capitol Rotunda, Washington DC