Ariadne Asleep on the Island of Naxos, now housed at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia
Landing of Columbus (1842–1847), depicting Christopher Columbus landing on San Salvador Island in the Bahamas, now on display at the U.S. Capitol Rotunda in Washington, D.C.
Metropolitan Museum of Art Portrait of Egbert Benson, after Gilbert Stuart, c. 1794
Aaron Burr
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Aaron Burr Jr. was an American politician, businessman, and lawyer who served as the third vice president of the United States from 1801 to 1805, during Thomas Jefferson's first presidential term. A m
John Vanderlyn
…of the Fine Arts. He went to Philadelphia, where he spent time in the studio of Gilbert Stuart and copied some of Stuart's portraits, including one of Aaron Burr, who placed him under Gilbert Stuart as a pupil. He was a protégé of Aaron Burr, who in 1796 sent Vanderlyn to Paris, where he studied for five years…
Portrait by John Vanderlyn, c. 1803
Burr's maternal grandfather Jonathan Edwards, a Congregationalist theologian
The Death of General Montgomery in the Attack on Quebec, December 31, 1775, a 1786 portrait by John Trumbull depicting the Battle of Quebec in 1775
A portrait of Burr and Theodosia Bartow Prevost, who Burr married in 1782, by Henry Benbridge