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Portrait of a Boy, Probably of the Crossfield Family  1775

by William Williams

William Williams was born in England, the son of a mariner. He lived through shipwreck and adventure in the Caribbean before arriving in Philadelphia at the age of twenty, by which time he was already earning a livelihood as a painter. He returned to England in 1776, and died there fifteen years later in an almshouse. Tradition holds that the solemn young man represented i...
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Courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art