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Painting & Engraving

• Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin
  • Grace at Table (a.k.a. "Prayer Before Meal")
  • Soap Bubbles
  • The Silver Goblet - example of still life
  
  
• Thomas Gainsborough
  • Mrs. Richard Brinsley Sheridan
  • Haymaker and Sleeping Girl
  • Mary, Countess Howe
  • The Market Cart
  • The Blue Boy
  
  
• William Hogarth
  • The Rake's Progress [Note that the second half is at the bottom of the page.]
  • A Harlot's Progress
  • Marriage à la Mode [See note above.]
  
  
• Angelica Kauffman
  • Cornelia Pointing to her Children as her Treasures
  
  
• Sir Joshua Reynolds
  • Nelly O'Brien
  • Three Ladies Adorning a Term of Hymen
  • Portrait of a Man and Horse
  • Sarah Siddons as Tragic Muse
  
  
• Benjamin West
  • Agrippina with the Ashes of Germanicus
  • The Death of Wolfe
  • Penn's Treaty with the Indians
  
  
• John Singleton Copley
  • American works
    • Theodore Atkinson
    • Mrs. Ezekiel Goldthwait
    • John Hancock
    • Paul Revere
  • English works
    • Mrs. Seymour Fort
    • The Copley Family
    • Watson and the Shark
    • The Death of the Earl of Chatham
    • The Death of Major Pierson
  
  
• Gilbert Stuart
  • English works
    • The Skater
    • James Ward
    • Sir Joshua Reynolds
    • John Singleton Copley
    • Joseph Brandt
  • American works
    • Chief Justice John Jay
    • Portraits of George Washington
      • Vaughan
      • Athenaeum
      • Lansdowne
      • Washington at Dorchester Heights
    • Martha Washington (companion to Athenaeum portrait)
    • John Adams and Abigail Adams
    • Dolley Madison
    • James Madison
    • Thomas Jefferson
    • James Monroe
    • John Adams (months before his death)
  
  
• Other American artists of note
  • Charles Willson Peale
    • The Staircase Group
    • The Peale Family
    • Exhuming the Mastodon
  • John Trumbull
    • Declaration of Independence
    • Battle of Bunkers Hill
  • Edward Hicks
    • The Peaceable Kingdom
  
  
• Elisabeth-Louise Vigée-Lebrun
  • Self-Portrait (1790)
  • Marie Antoinette and her Children
  
  
• Jacques-Louis David
  • Consecration of the Emperor Napoleon I...
  • The Oath of the Horatii
  • The Death of Socrates
  • Napoleon Crossing the Saint Bernard
  • The Death of Marat
  
  
• Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
  • The Comtesse d'Haussonville
  • La Grande Odalisque
  • Apotheosis of Homer
  • Portrait of the Princess de Broglie
  • Paganini
  • Jupiter and Thetis
  • The Bather of Valpinçon
  • Madame de Moitessier (1851)
  • Madame Moitessier (1856)

Architecture

• Neoclassical
  • Lord Burlington
    • Chiswick House
  • Thomas Jefferson
    • Monticello
    • University of Virginia
  • Karl Langhans
    • Brandenburg Gate
  • Arc de Triomphe [detail]
  • U.S. Capitol, Washington, DC
• Neo-Gothic
  • Strawberry Hill
  • Royal Pavilion, Brighton
  • Houses of Parliament (Westminster Palace)
• Neo-Baroque
  • Paris Opera

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