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This half-length portrait depicts Strickland, architect of Philadelphia's Second Bank of the United States, Merchants' Exchange, and United States Naval Asylum, as well as the Tennessee State Capitol and other important Greek Revival structures, with…

The Schuylkill River is shown as a classical river god whose chains symbolize the control of the river by the Fairmount Dam and Water Works.

One of a pair.
engraved on plaque in front of base: The Merchants of Pearl Street, New York / TO THE HON. DEWITT CLINTON / Whose claim to the proud Title of "Public Benefactor", / is founded on those magnificent works, / The Northern and Western…

Captain Samuel Blodget, Jr. (1757-1814), designer of the First Bank of the United States, is shown as an officer of the New Hampshire Militia. Trumbull has painted Blodget full length, but on the same scale as the figures in the history paintings he…

"During his first term as President, in March 1803, Thomas Jefferson appointed Benjamin Latrobe Surveyor of Public Buildings. It may have been in recognition of this honor that Latrobe's good friend Charles Willson Peale painted this portrait for his…

Oil sketch of Phidias studying horses and riders from the life for the Parthenon frieze.

Oil sketch of Phidias studying horses and riders from the life for the Parthenon frieze.

One of a pair; designed for the Imperial Opera House in Vienna; briefly installed on that building, but thought to be out of scale and taken down. Bought by Philadelphian Robert Gratz who gave them to the Fairmount Park Commission, they were set up…

One of a pair; designed for the Imperial Opera House in Vienna; briefly installed on that building, but thought to be out of scale and taken down. Bought by Philadelphian Robert Gratz who gave it to the Fairmount Park Commission, they were set up in…