Three hundred paintings in chronological order from 1500 to 2008 ad.

1565 The Harvesters by Pieter Bruegel the Elder http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/bruegel/

late 1500's A Cheifie Herowans Wyfe by John White http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:A_Cheife_Herowans_Wyfe.jpg

~1672 Elizabeth Clark Freak and baby Mary (Mrs. John Freak) by The Freake Limner aka Freake-Gibbs Painter http://cgfa.sunsite.dk/f/p-freake1.htm

~1680 Self Portrait of Captain Thomas Smith http://www.worcesterart.org/Collection/Early_American/Artists/smith/self/catalog.html

Gerrit Symonse Veeder by Nehemiah Partridge http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/partridge/

1730s Portrait of Catherine Ogden by Pieter Vanderlyn http://www.newarkmuseum.org/museum_default_page.aspx?id=1482

1730s Lady Undressing for a Bath Attributed to Gerardus Duyckinck

1732 Daniel, Peter, and Andrew Oliver by John Smibert http://the-athenaeum.org/art/full.php?ID=22117

1741 Isaac Royall and His Family by Robert Feke http://www.library.csi.cuny.edu/dept/history/lavender/graphics/iroyal.html

1747 The Greenwood-Lee Family by John Greenwood http://cgfa.sunsite.dk/g/g-9.htm#greenwood

1748 William Bowdoin by Robert Feke http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Feke

~1750 Captain-Lieutenant John Larrabee by Joseph Badger http://www.worcesterart.org/Collection/Early_American/select_by_artist/content.html

~1750 Mrs. Nathaniel Brown (Anna Porter Brown) by Joseph Badger http://www.artcyclopedia.com/scripts/r.pl?R101+112 AmericanPictureLinks.Com

~1755 Mrs. John Edwards (Abigail Fowle) by Joseph Badger http://www.mfa.org/collections/search_art.asp?recview=true&id=32156&coll_keywords=Smith+Thomas&coll_accession=&coll_name=&coll_artist=&coll_place=&coll_medium=&coll_culture=&coll_classification=&coll_credit=&coll_provenance=&coll_location=&coll_has_images=1&coll_on_view=&coll_sort=0&coll_sort_order=0&coll_view=0&coll_package=0&coll_start=1

1755 Dr. Samuel Boude by Benjamin West http://www.nga.gov/fcgi-bin/timage_f?object=50264&image=11109&c=

1755 Mary Bethel Boude (Mrs. Samuel Boude) by Benjamin West http://www.nga.gov/fcgi-bin/timage_f?object=70986&image=17721&c=

1755 Isaac Winslow and His Family by Joseph Blackburn http://www.mfa.org/collections/search_art.asp?recview=true&id=32859&coll_keywords=Blackburn&coll_accession=&coll_name=&coll_artist=&coll_place=&coll_medium=&coll_culture=&coll_classification=&coll_credit=&coll_provenance=&coll_location=&coll_has_images=1&coll_on_view=&coll_sort=0&coll_sort_order=0&coll_view=0&coll_package=0&coll_start=1

1759 The Death of General Wolfe by Benjamin West http://jamesbrantley.net/chapter_three.htm

1760 Mary Trusler by Jeremiah Theus http://flickr.com/photos/44124324682@N01/2401676904/

1760s Jean Dick (Mrs. Anthony Stewart) by John Hesselius http://www.mfa.org/collections/search_art.asp?recview=true&id=35613&coll_keywords=&coll_accession=&coll_name=&coll_artist=Hesselius&coll_place=&coll_medium=&coll_culture=&coll_classification=Paintings&coll_credit=&coll_provenance=&coll_location=&coll_has_images=1&coll_on_view=&coll_sort=0&coll_sort_order=0&coll_view=0&coll_package=0&coll_start=1

1763 Hannah Loring by John Singleton Copley http://www.dia.org/collections/AmericanArt/pages/colonial/

1765 The American School by Matthew Pratt http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/bwst/ho_97.29.3.htm#

1767 Ann Gibbes (Mrs. Edward Thomas) by John Wallaston http://www.worcesterart.org/Collection/Early_American/Artists/wollaston/ann/painting.html

1768 Mary Bontecou by John Durand http://www.metmuseum.org/works_of_art/collection_database/american_paintings_and_sculpture/susannah_or_mary_bontecou_john_durand/objectview_enlarge.aspx?page=108&sort=0&sortdir=asc&keyword=&fp=1&dd1=2&dd2=0&vw=1&collID=2&OID=20011152&vT=1

1772 The Treaty of Penn with the Indians by Benjamin West http://www.artinthepicture.com/paintings/Benjamin_West/The-Treaty-of-Penn-with-the-Indians/

1772 George Washgton at age 40 by Charles Willson Peale http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Washington_1772.jpg AmericanPictureLinks.Com

~1772 Portrait of a Boy by William Williams http://www.artrenewal.org/asp/database/image.asp?id=20045

1772 George Washington at age 40 by Charles Willson Peale (detail) http://www.npj.com/thefaceofbach/QCL05.html

1773 CHARLES COTESWORTH PINCKNEY by Henry Benbridge http://www.army.mil/cmh/books/RevWar/ss/pinckneycc.htm

1775 Benjamin Waterhouse by Gilbert Stuart http://www.metmuseum.org/special/Gilbert_Stuart/s1_obj_4.L.asp

1776 Paul Revere by John Singleton Copley http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Bellows_George_Anne_in_White_1920.jpg/200px-Bellows_George_Anne_in_White_1920.jpg&imgrefurl=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portrait_painting&h=245&w=200&sz=11&hl=en&start=5&um=1&tbnid=MDEwCRfU1k7AoM:&tbnh=110&tbnw=90&prev=/images%3Fq%3Danne%2Bin%2Bwhite%2Bgeorge%2Bbellows%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DG

1778 Watson and the Shark by John Singleton Copley http://www.nga.gov/feature/watson/credits.shtm

1783 George Washington by William Dunlap http://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/art/common/image/Painting_31_00015.htm

1784 Henry Knox by Charles Willson Peale http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Henry_Knox_by_Peale.jpg

1785 Benjamin Franklin by Joseph Siffred Duplessis http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_franklin

Portrait of George Washington dressed as an American General by Samuel King http://www.culture.gouv.fr/cgi-bin/alphabetique-eng?args,King,Julien,Labille,

1786 Joseph Brandt by Gilbert Stuart - Portrait of Thayendanegea http://www.artline.ro/module.php?module=curent_detaliu&artist_id=168

1786 John Paine by Winthrop Chandler http://www.mfa.org/collections/search_art.asp?recview=true&id=34348&coll_keywords=&coll_accession=&coll_name=&coll_artist=Chandler&coll_place=&coll_medium=&coll_culture=&coll_classification=Paintings&coll_credit=&coll_provenance=&coll_location=&coll_has_images=1&coll_on_view=&coll_sort=0&coll_sort_order=0&coll_view=0&coll_package=0&coll_start=1

1787 William Vans Murray by Mather Brown http://www.nga.gov/collection/gallery/gg62/gg62-560.html AmericanPictureLinks.Com

1787 George Washington by James Peale http://the-athenaeum.org/art/full.php?ID=25394

1788 MARY KIMBERLY THOMAS REYNOLDS by Reuben Moulthrop http://www.folkartmuseum.org/default.asp?id=1522

1790 The Capture of the Hessians at Trenton by John Trumbull http://www.ngb.army.mil/news/todayinhistory/december.aspx

~1790 The Washington Family by Edward Savage http://www.nga.gov/cgi-bin/pimage?564+0+0+gg62

1790 Anna Dorothea Foster and Charlotte Anna Dick by Gilbert Stuart in Dublin http://www.metmuseum.org/special/Gilbert_stuart/s3_obj_3.L.asp?printFlag=1

1790 George Duffield by Charles Peale Polk http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/religion/obj-list.html

1791 The Expulsion of Adam and Eve from Paradise by Benjamin West http://www.nga.gov/fcgi-bin/timage_f?object=70986&image=17721&c=

1792 Oliver and Abigail Wolcott Ellsworth by Ralph Earl http://www.wadsworthatheneum.org/view/american-paintings.php?art_work_index=1

~1793 George Washington by Charles Peale Polk http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:George_washington_charles_peale_polk.jpg

1794 Josef de Jaudenes y Nebot by Gilbert Stuart http://www.metmuseum.org/TOAH/hd/stua/ho_07.75.htm

~1795 The Old Plantation with Banjo in S. Carolina http://www.history.org/history/teaching/enewsletter/volume3/images/OldPlantMed.jpg

1795 Major General Charles Cotesworth Pinckney by James Earl http://www.worcesterart.org/Collection/Early_American/select_by_artist/content.html

1795 Wooded landscape with pack mule by William Williams http://www.culturalmodes.norfolk.gov.uk/projects/nmaspub5.asp?page=hitlist&mwsquery=+%28+%7BWho%3F%7D+%3D*+%7BWilliams,%20William%7D+%29+&filename=d%3A%5Cmuseums%5Cmodes%5Cp_finea1.mdf&submitButton=Show+hits

1796 Albert Gallatin by James Sharples http://www.metmuseum.org/search/iquery.asp?command=text&datascope=&attr1=%22Sharples%22&attr2=undefined&v0=&gs=sitemap+taxonomy%2F%2F0%2F%2F1&vid=%24__visitId__%24&g=sitemap+taxonomy&i=sitemap+id&qid=%24__queryId__%24&s1=iphrase+relevance%2F%2F0&s0=sortOrder%2F%2F0&tq=1&q=10&as=1&r=sitemap+taxonomy%2F%2F2%2F%2F3&qtid=%2

1796 Portrait of George Eliot and Family by Johnathan Budington http://the-athenaeum.org/art/detail.php?ID=22704&msg=You+were+sent+here+because+this+artist+only+has+one+artwork+in+our+database.++This+is+it.

1797 Samuel Preston by Benjamin West http://www.librarycompany.org/color/section3.htm

1797 Portrait of a Boy by William Jennys http://www.wfu.edu/art/ac_jennys_portrait.htm

1798 Mrs. Noah Smith and Her Children by Ralph Earl http://pictopia.com/perl/ptp/artwall/?ptp_photo_id=144474

John Marshall by James Reid Lambdin http://www.lrc.ky.gov/kidspages/artwork.htm

1803 The Brig of Charles of Boston by Michele Felice Cornè http://www.mfa.org/collections/search_art.asp?recview=true&id=36696&coll_keywords=&coll_accession=&coll_name=&coll_artist=Corne&coll_place=&coll_medium=&coll_culture=&coll_classification=Watercolors&coll_credit=&coll_provenance=&coll_location=&coll_has_images=1&coll_on_view=&coll_sort=0&coll_sort_order=0&coll_view=0&coll_package=0&coll_start=1

1804 Anna Payne Cutts by Gilbert Stuart http://www.metmuseum.org/special/Gilbert_Stuart/s7_obj_1.L.asp?printFlag=1