1John Adams to Abigail Adams, 6 July 1774 (Adams Papers)
...always to discuss the Question, without all Painting, Pathos, Rhetoric, or Flourish of every...
2Isaac Smith Jr. to John Adams, 3 September 1771 (Adams Papers)
...buildings, the Churches, the libraries, the paintings, the amusements, and the manners of...
3From George Washington to Jonathan Boucher, 21 May 1772 (Washington Papers)
..., and Pennsylvania, hoping to make enough money on portrait painting to pay off pressing debts.
4From James Madison to William Bradford, 9 November 1772 (Madison Papers)
...have so early seen through the romantic paintings with which the World is sometimes set...
5From Benjamin Franklin to Peter P. Burdett, 21 August 1773 (Franklin Papers)
...president of a local academy of painting and sculpture and contributed to the......Paintings....
6From Benjamin Franklin to Peter P. Burdett, 3 November 1773 (Franklin Papers)
...is admirable. No one would suppose it any thing but Painting.
7From Benjamin Franklin to Richard Dawson, 29 May 1772 (Franklin Papers)
For Wilson, who combined painting with science, see above,
8From Benjamin Franklin to Sir Alexander and Lady Dick: Joys of Prestonfield Adieu!, [15–20 October? 1759] (Franklin Papers)
. The painting descended to Alexander’s niece Mariamne, wife of Jonathan...
9To Benjamin Franklin from William Strahan, 26 August 1752 (Franklin Papers)
Du fresnoy’s Art of Painting, by DrydenDe Pile’s Art of Painting
10To Benjamin Franklin from Agatha Drummond, [19 November 1771] (Franklin Papers)
had become interested in this painting, ostensibly of William Penn, on his visit to the...