​Marking the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, Ben Elwes Fine Art takes a visually rich and historically significant look at the Anglo-American artists who enriched London in the eighteenth century. “One People, Two Shores: Anglo-American Art in the Age of Revolution” brings together works on canvas and paper by Benjamin West (1738-1820), John Singleton Copley (1738-1815), and John Taylor (1735-1806), three artists singled out by Benjamin Franklin as the best in England in their respective genres: history, portraiture, and landscape. Amongst the additional works which complement the exhibition are an eighteenth-century portrait by the leading artist of New Orleans, Jose Francisco de Salazar y Mendosa (1750-1802), Robert Smirke’s study for an engraving that appeared in Joel Barlow’s epic poem, The Columbiad, and the terracotta maquette by Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi (1834-1904) for Liberty Enlightening the World.