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Hostilities between North American colonists and Britain were boiling over in the 1770s when Benjamin West painted this double portrait. The British wanted to ensure the loyalty of the Mohawk people, the easternmost tribe of the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois Confederacy), in case of war.
Sussex;[1] (Sotheby’s, London, 7 December 1927, no. 54, as a portrait of Sir Joseph Banks

The Corcoran Gallery of Art was the first institution in the United States created specifically as an art museum. After its closure in 2014, the National Gallery of Art took responsibility for the collection.
Corcoran’s founder, William Wilson Corcoran (1798 – 1888), was a Washington, D.C., banker

The impressionist style developed as a method to render more accurately the appearance of the natural world, and was principally a technique for landscape painting. Corot, whose career began in the late 1820s when the academic tradition of landscape painting was being revived, was one of the most prolific and influential exponents of the genre.
The olive-colored water seems to have cut straight down over time, creating high banks

Jean Antoine Watteau came from a modest family in the Flemish city of Valenciennes, which had been annexed by France in 1678. He is said to have spent his formative years training under either the religious painter Jacques Albert Gérin (c.
class of patrons epitomized by Pierre Crozat (1665–1740), the immensely wealthy banker

Latin America, with its rich histories and cultures — as well as dense jungles, towering volcanoes, and mountain ranges — fascinated American artists in the mid-19th century. Frederic Edwin Church traveled in the tropics and used the sketches he made in different locations to create popular landscape paintings.
Densely packed trees, bushes, and plants create shadowed, thickly forested banks

Giovanni della Casa, who is in all likelihood the subject of this portrait, belonged to a wealthy Tuscan family and rose to prominence in the service of the church. As poet, humanist, and political theorist, he circulated at the highest levels of Italian intellectual life.
Raphael, Cellini & a Renaissance Banker: The Patronage of Bindo Altoviti.

An old hermit dressed in a Franciscan habit, his clasped hands resting on a well-thumbed page of the open Bible, kneels before a crucifix and contemplates the mysteries of Christ’s death and resurrection. Gerrit Dou was fascinated by the subject of the contemplative life and its virtue, and he produced at least eleven hermit scenes over the course of his career.
Raphael & the Beautiful Banker: the story of the Bindo Altoviti portrait.

raised to erect a separate building for the nation’s art.[6] The powerful Pittsburgh banker

We don’t know who this family is, but the inscription on the lid of the box on the floor tells us the date: April 1, 1756.
reported an uncorroborated tale according to which the husband in the painting was a banker

Jan Steen’s paintings encompass a wide range of moods and subjects, from intimate scenes of a family saying grace before a meal to festive village celebrations, yet all of his paintings elicit a warm reaction to the lives of ordinary people. All five senses are represented in this work in which two young musicians play for a dancing couple while other people in the vine-covered arbor flirt, eat, drink, or smoke, and children amuse themselves with their toys.
At Spes Non Fracta: Hope & Co. 1770-1815: Merchant Bankers and Diplomats at Work.