ABSTRACT
When Pennsylvanian Ebenezer Hazard travelled to Williamsburg, Virginia, in 1777, he toured the state capital’s main church and public buildings. Hazard noted that the elegant coat of arms of the House of Hanover that had once hung at the entrance to the House of Burgesses had been burnt during the iconoclastic violence that finished the empire in 1776. Nonetheless, a full-length, life-size Van Dyck portrait of Queen Anne continued to hang in the capital’s courtrooms. More astonishingly, similar-sized portraits of George II and his popular queen, Caroline, looked down on the Virginia house’s would-be republicans in the main assembly room as they debated war and republican revolution. 1
