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Portrait of Robert Sherman
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Portrait_of_Robert_Sherman
1775
64 5/8 x 49 5/8 in
Yale University Art Gallery
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Portrait of a Man with a Gun
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Portrait_of_a_Man_with_a_Gun
1784
86 7/8 x 57 7/16 in
Worcester Art Museum, MA
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Looking East from Denny Hill
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Looking_East_from_Denny_Hill
1800
45 3/4 x 79 3/8 in
Worcester Art Museum, MA
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Mary Ann Carpenter
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Mary_Ann_Carpenter
1779
47 3/4 x 35 3/8 in
Worcester Art Museum, MA
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Mrs Benjamin Tallmadge
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Mrs_Benjamin_Tallmadge
Litchfield Historical Society
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Ralph_Earl
1751- 1801
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Ralph Earl was born in either Shrewsbury or Leicester, Massachusetts. By 1774, he was working in New Haven, Connecticut as a portrait painter. In the autumn of 1774, Earl returned to Leicester, Massachusetts to marry his cousin, Sarah Gates. A few months later, their daughter was born; however, Earl left them both with Sarah's parents and returned to New Haven.
Like so many of the colonial craftsmen, Earl was self-taught, and for many years was an itinerant painter. In 1775, Earl visited Lexington and Concord, which were the sites of recent battles in the American Revolution. Together with engraver Amos Doolittle, he painted four of his most famous pictures, all battle scenes.
Although his father was a colonel in the Revolutionary army, Ralph Earl himself was a Loyalist. In 1778, he left behind his wife and daughter and escaped to England by disguising himself as the servant of British army captain John Money. |
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