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Charles Calvert of Maryland, by John Hesselius, is one of the finest surviving examples of early Southern portraiture. The five-year-old subject, a great-great-great-grandson of Maryland's founder, stands like a general in full regalia ordering his troops to advance. But Calvert has the dreamy look of a little boy who wonders how soon he can go out to play. His personal slave seems the better actor...
...Metropolitan Museum acquired a portrait by the earliest known painter in America, Gustavus Hesselius, a Swede, who settled in Philadelphia...
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