Sir Walter Raleigh - 1590
by 
T. H. Robinson 

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Sir George Somers’ Third Supply Fleet Sailing for Jamestown - 1609
Deryck Foster
Sir Thomas Gates - Governor of Virginia 
1610
Artist unknown

The Baptism of Pocahontas at Jamestown, Virginia, 1613
by
 John Gadsby Chapman

The Jamestown Massacre 
1622  
by 
Matthaeus Merian

Landing of Negroes at Jamestown 
from a Dutch Man-of-War
1619
by 
Howard Pyle 

Jamestown 
during 
Sir George Yeardley's 
Governorship
1620

Artist unknown


The Birth of Virginia's  Aristocracy

Illustrations 

 Oliver Cromwell, “warts and all”
1654
Study
 by
 Sir Peter Lely

Sir William Berkeley Surrenders Virginia to the  Commissioners of the Commonwealth - 1652
by
Howard Pyle

The Restoration
Charles II Lands at Dover 
1660
by 
Charles M. Padday 

Charles the King 
walked for the last time through  the
streets of London 
1649
by
Archibald Stevenson Forrest

James, Duke of York
As Lord High Admiral
1670
by
Henry Gascar


Nathaniel Bacon and His Followers 
Burning Jamestown 
1676
by
Howard Pyle

Anthony Ashley-Cooper
The 1st Earl of Shaftesbury
1773
After a portrait 
by
John Greenhill

Thomas, 2nd Lord Culpeper
Governor of Virginia 1677-1684
1st Proprietor 
of the 
Northern Neck Proprietary
Artist unknown 

Charles II Signs the Charter of Pennsylvania
1681
by
Violet Oakley

The Northern Neck Proprietary Grant - 1686
from
Charles II
to 
Thomas, 2nd Lord Culpeper

Thomas, 5th Lord Fairfax
2nd Proprietor of the Northern Neck
1657 - 1709

Artist unknown



Richard Lee II 
1647-1714

Artist unknown
Gentlemen 
Meeting in the Old Domion
1750

Artist Unknown


Burgesses Meeting at the Raleigh Tavern,
Williasmsburg, 1774
by 
Howard Pyle
Charles Thomson
Secretary
of the 
1st Continental Congress
1774-1775
by
Joseph Wright
Charles I, King of England 
1635
by 
Antoon van Dyck 
Thomas Jefferson
Working along in his Philadelphia quarters
1776
after a painting by 
Howard Pyle
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