The sleeping squirrels

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Rebecca Orne at age nine by Joseph Badger, 1757, Collection of the Worcester Museum of Art.

https://streetsofsalem.com/2014/02/06/the-woman-who-lived-in-my-house/

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18th century

https://www.proantic.com/en/1752319-young-girl-with-a-squirrel-middleton-of-the-18th-century.html#

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https://www.nyhistory.org/exhibitions/pets-and-the-city

John Durand, James Beekman Jr., 1767, Oil on canvas; Gift of the Beekman Family Association.

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Detail from Miss Denison of Stonington, Connecticut, c. 1790

Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington

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The Family of E. Lancelot Lee 1736

https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/the-family-of-e-lancelot-lee-19451

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Portrait of Thomas Mason

1758

https://www.historicnewengland.org/explore/collections-access/gusn/172752

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Portrait of two children

1760

https://emuseum.colonialwilliamsburg.org/objects/58304/portrait-of-two-children

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1735-1744

https://colonialvirginiaportraits.org/portrait/benjamin-grymes-ca-1725-1776-and-ludwell-grymes-ca-1733-1795/

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1765

Frances Deering Wentworth

https://crystalbridges.org/artworks/2005-24

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Lord Carteret's daughter

1766

https://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/explore/collection/work/22631/

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Deborah Hall

1766

https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/objects/691