Portraits - The Thomas Paine Historical Association

Moncure Daniel Conway, The Life of Thomas Paine (New York, G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1892), 1:33-34 & 2:frontispiece.

Detail from mezzotint in Unpublished W.G. Clarke scrapbook, No. MS 120:43, File MS 120, W.G. Clarke, Thomas Paine Centenary 1909, Norfolk Record Office (handwritten signature of “Thomas Paine” and notation of “Phia Nov 25 1779”).

“Thomas Paine and the Dialogues of Early America,” John J. Burns Library Blog, https://johnjburnslibrary.wordpress.com/2016/06/13/thomas-paine-and-the-dialogues-of-early-america/ (frontispiece to 1791 Letter to Abbe Raynal by unknown engraver based on confiscated Peale portrait).

“Thomas Paine,” New York Public Library Digital Collections, https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/79c1ff9c-c278-9f57-e040-e00a18061f18 (1792 Watson engraving based on confiscated Peale portrait)

“Thomas Paine,” New York Public Library Digital Collections, https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47da-fa66-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99 (1792 Mutlow engraving based on confiscated Peale portrait)

“Thomas Paine,” National Portrait Gallery (DC), https://npg.si.edu/object/npg_NPG.90.43 (1792 pencil sketch by Samuel Collings)

“File: Blake manuscript – Notebook – page 074-Tom Paine-detail.jpg,” Wikimedia Commons, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Blake_manuscript_-_Notebook_-_page_074-Tom_Paine-detail.jpg (undated sketch by William Blake presumed to be of Paine)

“Thomas Paine,” New York Public Library Digital Collections, https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/79c1ff9c-c261-9f57-e040-e00a18061f18/book?parent=bc4bcb80-c595-012f-970a-58d385a7bc34#page/7/mode/2up (1792 William Sharp engraving taken directly from 1792 Romney life portrait)

“Thomas Paine,” National Portrait Gallery (London), https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw257290/Thomas-Paine?LinkID=mp03422&search=sas&sText=Thomas+paine&role=sit&rNo=10

(1792 John Kay engraving taken directly from 1792 Romney life portrait);
“Thomas Paine,” New York Public Library Digital Collections, https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/79c1ff9c-c261-9f57-e040-e00a18061f18/book?parent=bc4bcb80-c595-012f-970a-58d385a7bc34#page/3/mode/2up (1796 Paine portrait by Francois Bonneville)

“Thomas Paine,” National Gallery of Art, https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.38935.html (1806-1807 life portrait by John Wesley Jarvis);

“Thomas Paine’s Death Mask,” Flicker, https://www.flickr.com/photos/norfolkodyssey/2792509942 (death mask taken from Paine’s face after 1809 death)

Jarvis, “Thomas Paine,” New York Historical Society Museum & Library, https://emuseum.nyhistory.org/objects/18233/thomas-paine-17371809;jsessionid=04A6DBEF8924F4B30E6D4474BEA13957 (1809 sculpture by John Wesley Jarvis based on death mask).

If a miniature of Paine that John Trumbull sent to Thomas Jefferson in 1788 began as an original rather than a derivative, it was probably “repainted” by a “wayward contemporary” of Trumbull and also later vandalized. Courtesy of Monticello.org