Important+Artist

Who were the three or four most important artists (include visuals and links) from the period? = = = = =Paul Revere=
 * Paul Revere** (January 1, 1735 – May 10, 1818) was an American silversmith and a patriot in the American Revolution. He was Pro Colonist

Made a painting of the Boston Massacre. Making a major role in whipping up colonial fury against the British.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Revere#The_midnight_ride

=Gilbert Stuart=
 * Gilbert Charles Stuart** (December 3, 1755 - July 9, 1828) was an American painter.


 * Stuart did many paintings of George Washington, he thought of it as painting the Revoultion its self. He thought that the ideals of the struggles caould be read on Washington’s fetures and personality.


 * Portrait of George Washington for the White House, 1797. This is the painting that Dolley Madison rescued when the White House was burned during the War of 1812.





http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilbert_Stuart

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Benjamin West
Benjamin West (October 10, 1738 – March 11, 1820) was an Anglo-American painter of historial scenes in around the time of the American Recolution. He was commissioned by [|King George III] to create portraits of members of the royal family. The king himself was twice painted by him. He painted his most famous, and possibly most influential painting, //[|The Death of General Wolfe]//, in 1770, exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1771.

In this painting some people see the General dying as Christ being removed from the cross.

[[image:http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/west/death-wolfe.jpg width="760" height="539"]]

 * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_West**

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