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What denomination rejected religiuos painting in their places of worship?

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PUritans

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What type of portraiture did Puritan painters favor?

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Elizabethan

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What style of portraiture dominated British art in the eighteenth century?

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Grand Manner

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Whose painting style inspired Grand Manner portraiture?

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Anthony van Dyck

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What two things describe Elizabethan portraiture?

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linear and heavily focused on costume details

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Who are the pendant portraits referenced in the guide for?

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John Freake and Elizabeth Freake

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hen were the Freake portraits painted?

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1670s

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Who was the painter of the Freake portraits?

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unknown - itinerant limner

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What two occupations did John Freake have?

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merchant and lawyer

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What six features of John Freake’s portrait are noted in the guide?

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intricate lace collar, elaborate cuffs, gloves, dark brown velvet coat, 22 shiny, silver buttons

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What five features of Elizabeth Freake’s portrait are noted in the guide?

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pearl necklace, garnet bracelet, gold ring, ribbons, lace

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Where would the lace worn by the Freakes have come from?

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Europe

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Where would the pearls worn by Elizabeth Freake have come from?

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China

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Where would the garnets worn by Elizabeth have come from?

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India

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Who created a seaside portrait in 1680?

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Thomas Smith

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What notable feature was included in Smith’s self portrait?

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A memento mori symbol

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What does memento mori mean in latin?

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Remember that you will die

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What was the memento mori included in Smith’s self portrait?

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skull

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What two descriptors characterize colonial folk portraits?

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flatness and linearity

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Who introduced modeling and naturalism into the colonies?

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John Smibert

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Where was Smibert born, and where did he study art?

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Scotland, London

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Who was the first academically trained artist to live and work in the colonies?

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Smibert

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What did Smibert paint in 1728?

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The Bermuda Group

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How did The Bermuda Group show Smibert’s skill?

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it showed an arrangement of figures in different poses

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Where was Copley born?
Boston
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When was Copley born?
1738
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Who were Copley's parents?
Richard and Mary Singleton Copley
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Who was Copley's stepfather?
Peter Pelham
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How long after he married Copley's mother did Pelham die?
three years
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Whose studio did Copley purchase?
Smibert
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Unlike most American artists in the eighteenth century, Copley was ________
self-taught
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Why was Copley highly sought-after?
lifelike, richly detailed portraits
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Where did Henry Pelham send Boy with a Flying Squirrel?
Society of Artists of Great Britain
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Whose attention did Copley attract in London?
Benjamin West
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Who did Copley marry?
Susanna Farmham Clarke
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When did Copley marry Clarke?
1769
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How many children did Copley and Clarke have?
six
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Where did Copley and Clarke own a home?
Beacon Hill
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Who was Clarke's father in law?
Richard Clarke
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Where did Copley move in 1774?
London
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When was Paul Revere born?
1734
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What religious group was Paul Revere's father and what was his name?
French Huguenot, Apollos Rivoire
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Who was Revere's mother?
Deborah Hitchborn
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What did Hitchborn's family own?
Shipping wharf
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How many siblings did Paul Revere have?
12
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What was Revere's father's occupation?
silversmith
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What war did Revere serve in?
French and Indian
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In what year did Revere join the sons of liberty?
1765
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In addition to engraving silver, what did Revere do?
operated a printing press
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When was the Boston Massacre?
1770
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Who did Revere engrave after 1770?
Henry Pelham
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What change in buying silver pieces occurred after the end of the Revolution?
people began purchasing large tea services
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Where did the silver for Revere's teapots come from?
Mexico
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Where can Revere's silverwork be found today? (2)
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and Metropolitan Museum of Art
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How long after his death did Revere gain fame?
forty years
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Who wrote Paul Revere's Ride?
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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When and where was Paul Revere's Ride published?
January 1861 in The Atlantic Monthly
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When was the famous ride by Revere?
April 18, 1775
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Who actually completed the mission of alerting people about the approach of the British army to Lexington?
Samuel Prescott
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What did Revere occasionally produce for Copley?
silver frames
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What makes Revere's portrait distinct from those made in Europe?
He holds a teapot and has dirty fingernails
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Revere's dress could best be described as what?
informal
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When was Paul Revere's portrait commissioned?
1767
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When were the Townshend Acts enacted?
1766
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What did the Townshend Acts taxZ?
glass, paint, oil, lead, paper, and tea
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What four things is Revere said to have produced?
spoons, buttons, tankards, coffee pots
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When was the Boston Tea Party?
1773
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Where were the portraits of Samuel Adams and John Hancock displayed?
Faneuil Hall in Boston
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When did the Revere portrait become known to the public?
1928
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What museum first showed the Revere portrait?
Museum of Fine Arts
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Where was Phillis Wheatley born?
Gambia in West Africa
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When was Wheatley born?
1753
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When did Wheatley arrive in Boston?
1761
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What was the name of the slave ship that transported Wheatley to America?
Phillis
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How many enslaved people lived in boston in 1761, and what was its population?
1,000 and 15,000
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Who sold Phillis Wheatley to John Wheatley?
John Avery
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What three languages did Phillis learn to read?
Greek, Latin, and English
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What four classic authors was Phillis familiar with?
Alexander Pope, John Milton, Virgil, Ovid, Homer
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In what newspaper did Wheatley publish her first poem?
Newport Mercury
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For what 1770 poem did Wheatley attract attention?
Elegy for George Whitefield
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What religion was George Whitefield a founder of?
Methodism
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Who supported Phillis's book?
Selena Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon
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Why did Hastings support Phillis's work?
George Whitefield had been her chaplain
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What was the title of Wheatley's book?
Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral
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How old was Wheatley when her book was published?
20
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Who did Wheatley dedicate her book to?
Hastings
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When was it ruled that enslaved people could not be moved out of England against their will?
1772
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Who arranged for Wheatley's emancipation?
Susanna Wheatley
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When did Wheatley's book of poetry arrive in New England?
January 1774
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What did Wheatley request of Washington when she sent a poem?
That they meet in Cambridge
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What two well known people did Wheatley meet with?
Benjamin Franklin and Brook Watson
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What was the title of Wheatley's poem commemorating the end of the Revolutionary War?
Liberty and Peace, A Poem
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When did Susanna Wheatley die?
1774
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When did John and Mary Wheatley die?
1778
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Who did Wheatley marry?
John Peters
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How could Wheatley's marriage best be described?
strained
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How many children did Wheatley have?
Three
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When did Wheatley's die (age)?
31
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Where was the Portrait of Wheatley in the guide published?
Front of her poetry book
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Who printed Wheatley's portrait?
Archibald Bell
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Whose portrait of Wheatley was the guide portrait likely based on?
Scipio Moorhead
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What made Wheatley's portrait unique?
It showed her as an intellectual

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