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Portraiture remained the most popular type of painting throughout the colonial period. Likenesses of the southern elite hung in the first-floor parlors and second-floor ballrooms of grand mansions. Jeremiah Theus, born in Switzerland to an artist family, came to America in the 1730s and settled in Charleston to paint portraits of some of South Carolina's wealthiest citizens (1997.340). Henry Benbridge, a talented portraitist in the next generation, also offered miniature versions of his work in watercolor on ivory. Virginian Thomas Jefferson, chief drafter of the Declaration of Independence and soon to be third president, was painted numerous times by Connecticut native John Trumbull (24.19.1).

The northern colonial elite also looked to portraiture as an art form embodying the ambitious ideals and tastes of a wealthy society, in large measure caused by the arrival of Scottish émigré John Smibert, in Newport, Rhode Island, in 1728. An artist of considerable skill and the first academically trained painter to work in the colonies, Smibert executed more than 250 likenesses over the next seventeen years (62.79.1). Soon other European-born portraitists brought their talents to the colonial American marketplace. America's first native-born painter of significant promise was John Singleton Copley, a superb artist of oil paintings, pastels, and portrait miniatures. Although unrivaled in his work, Copley sought education and a more sophisticated audience: in 1774, he left for England (31.109).

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