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Portraits depicting Arent DePeyster (shown here) and his wife, Rebecca DePeyster, Americans who supported the British during the Revolutionary War, sold for roughly $51,000 to the Mackinac Island State Park Commission, a Michigan state agency. The paired paintings were offered at Bellmans, an auction house in Billinghurst, England, on October 11.

Mackinac Island museum acquires portraits of American Loyalists

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Portraits depicting Arent DePeyster and his wife, Rebecca DePeyster, Americans who supported the British during the Revolutionary War, sold for roughly $51,000 to the Mackinac Island State Park Commission, a Michigan state agency. The paired paintings were offered at Bellmans, an auction house in Billinghurst, England, on October 11.

Portraits depicting Arent DePeyster and his wife, Rebecca DePeyster, Americans who supported the British during the Revolutionary War, sold for roughly $51,000 to the Mackinac Island State Park Commission, a Michigan state agency. The paired paintings were offered at Bellmans, an auction house in Billingshurst, England, on October 11.

BILLINGSHURST, U.K. – A pair of husband-and-wife portraits of Loyalists – Americans who supported Britain during the Revolutionary War – have sold in a British auction for the British pounds sterling equivalent of $51,000. The buyer is the Mackinac Island State Park Commission, a Michigan state agency which will place the paintings in its museum collection.

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A silver-mounted and inlaid American Revolutionary War tomahawk, taken from a captured combatant and brought back to England as a war trophy, sold for $540,000 plus the buyer’s premium in May 2020. Image courtesy of Dan Morphy Auctions and LiveAuctioneers.

Revolutionary War artifacts: American storytellers

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A silver-mounted and inlaid American Revolutionary War tomahawk, taken from a captured combatant and brought back to England as a war trophy, sold for $540,000 plus the buyer’s premium in May 2020. Image courtesy of Dan Morphy Auctions and LiveAuctioneers.

A silver-mounted and inlaid Colonial Revolutionary War tomahawk, taken from a captured combatant and brought back to England as a war trophy, sold for $540,000 plus the buyer’s premium in May 2020. Image courtesy of Dan Morphy Auctions and LiveAuctioneers.

NEW YORK — The nearly 60 men who made up the Continental Congress gathered in the Pennsylvania State House (now called Independence Hall) in Philadelphia on July 4, 1776 to formally adopt the Declaration of Independence. This was no simple vote. Of this group, about a third had served in the Revolutionary War as militia officers and had seen firsthand the horrors of the war that began in April 1775. In this momentous act, which was considered treason against Britain, Colonial America renounced England and declared it was its own country: The United States of America.

The Fourth of July holiday presents the perfect opportunity to consider collecting artifacts from the Revolutionary War and explore why interest in this material only continues to grow.

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