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Americans have been celebrating themselves in portraits since the arrival of the first itinerant portrait painters to the colonies. Whether painting in oil, carving in stone, casting in bronze, capturing on film, or calculating in binary code, we spend considerable time creating, contemplating, and collecting our likenesses.

John Smibert was the first portrait painter of distinction to attempt to carve out an existence in colonial America. This text is both a catalogue raisonne of Smibert's work and a discussion of his life and career.