Every Day a Painting for June 29, 2026

Colonel Guy Johnson and Karonghyontye (Captain David Hill) (1776)

Benjamin West

Oil on Canvas. American.

American Paintings of the Eighteenth Century

Hostilities between North American colonists and Britain were boiling over in the 1770s when Benjamin West painted this double portrait. The British wanted to ensure the loyalty of the Mohawk people,…

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