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Portrait of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hancock" class="extiw" title="w:John Hancock">John Hancock</a> (1737-1793)</div>
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Attributed to R. Purcell, working under the pseudonym C. Corbutt. The painter "Littleford" mentioned in the caption may be fictitious.</div>
first published in England in 1775
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