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Colonel Guy Johnson and Karonghyontye (Captain David Hill) by Benjamin West

https://www.nga.gov/artworks/569-colonel-guy-johnson-and-karonghyontye-captain-david-hill

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.
Winterthur Portfolio 40, no. 1 (Spring 2005): 47-75, fig. 3.

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The Greek Slave by Hiram Powers

https://www.nga.gov/artworks/166484-greek-slave

Sensational and scandalous for an American audience unused to seeing classically nude statues of women, this figure by Hiram Powers caused a frenzy when it was first exhibited in the mid-19th century. Curious viewers came in droves to see it after Powers sent several copies from Italy, where he created the work.
Winterthur Portfolio 43, no. 1 (2009): 5, repro. Moore, Charlotte Emans.

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