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Biggs Museum of American Art




The Janvier family of cabinetmakers worked during the federal period in Appoquinimink, now Odessa, Delaware. Gallery 3 displays a rare collection of their furniture. Portraits by an unidentified artist of John Janvier and his wife, as well as drawings by Saint-Memin and Benjamin West, are exhibited here.

George Washington, ca. 1796
James Sharples, 1751-1811
pastel on paper


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