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1798

Portrait of Colonel John Nixon, after Gilbert Stuart

Edward Greene Malbone

American, 1777 - 1807

Colonel Nixon was a Revolutionary patriot and a prominent Philadelphia merchant and financier. He is said to have been the first public proclaimer of the Declaration of Independence in 1776.

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