Depictions of Wythe

As a signer of the Declaration of Independence, George Wythe's portrait was much sought after by artists.

Images of George Wythe

The College of William & Mary Law School's Portrait of George Wythe. Unknown artist (c. 1830-1930), oil on canvas, gift of the Virginia Bar Association, 1936. In The Wolf Law Library's George Wythe Room.

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  Miniature by Henry Benbridge (c. 1770). Original at the R.W. Norton Art Gallery.
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  Pencil sketch from life, by John Trumbull, in Williamsburg (1791). Image courtesy of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation.
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  William Bache silhouette (1804). From Shades of Our Ancestors, by Alice Van Leer Carrick (1928).
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  William Satchwell Leney etching (1807). Original at the Virginia Historical Society.
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  Detail from John Trumbull's painting, Declaration of Independence (1818). Original at the U.S. Capitol, Washington, D.C.
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  J.B. Longacre etching (1823), after Leney. From John Sanderson's [https://catalog.swem.wm.edu/law/Record/200827 Biography of the Signers to the Declaration of Independence (vol. 2).
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  Lossing illustration (1859). Image courtesy of the New York Public Library.
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  William Bryan Hall (1868). Image courtesy of the New York Public Library.
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  Brotherhead illustration (1872). From The Centennial Book of the Signers.
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  John Ferguson Weir painting (1876), after John Trumbull. Image from History of the Portrait Collection, Independence National Historical Park, (2001). Original at Independence National Historical Park, Philadelphia.
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  Erekson lithograph (1876). Original at the Library of Congress.
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  Rosenthal, after Leney (1888). Image courtesy of the New York Public Library.
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  From the National Cyclopædia of American Biography (1893).
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  Portrait by William H. Crossman (1927), after John Trumbull. Original with the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Williamsburg, Virginia.
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  Wolf Law Library portrait, College of William & Mary Law School, Williamsburg.
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  Marble bust by Felix de Weldon (1954).
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  Marble bust by Bryant Baker (1962). Original at the Virginia State Capitol, Library of Virginia art collection, Richmond, Virginia.
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  Portrait by David Silvette (1979), College of William & Mary Law School, Williamsburg.
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  Bronze statue, by Gordon S. Kray (2000), College of William & Mary Law School, Williamsburg.

See also

• Bicentennial Postcards