Richard Henry Lee
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An aristocrat with an innate sense of his natural rights, Lee had long fought England\u00e2\u0080\u0099s attempts to undermine colonial liberties. He began his political career in the Virginia House of Burgesses, with a 1759 argument for an end to the slave trade because Black people were \u00e2\u0080\u009cequally entitled to liberty and freedom by the great law of nature.\u00e2\u0080\u009d"}, {"label": "Exhibition Label", "content": "When Lee\u00e2\u0080\u0099s resolution was adopted by the Continental Congress in early July 1776, he was in Virginia, helping to form a new state government. Lee later returned to Philadelphia to sign the Declaration of Independence."}, {"label": "Exhibition Label", "content": "Nacido en Stratford, Westmoreland County, Virginia"}, {"label": "Exhibition Label", "content": "El 7 de junio de 1776 le correspondi\u00c3\u00b3 a Richard Henry Lee, delegado de Virginia en el Segundo Congreso Continental, presentar la resoluci\u00c3\u00b3n de que \u00e2\u0080\u009cestas Colonias Unidas son, y por derecho deben ser, Estados libres e independientes\u00e2\u0080\u009d, iniciando as\u00c3\u00ad la Declaraci\u00c3\u00b3n de Independencia.Arist\u00c3\u00b3crata con un sentido innato de sus derechos naturales, Lee llevaba tiempo combatiendo los intentos ingleses de socavar las libertades coloniales. Comenz\u00c3\u00b3 su carrera pol\u00c3\u00adtica en la C\u00c3\u00a1mara de Burgueses de Virginia, donde argument\u00c3\u00b3 en 1759 que el tr\u00c3\u00a1fico de esclavos deb\u00c3\u00ada acabar porque las personas negras ten\u00c3\u00adan \u00e2\u0080\u009cigual derecho a la libertad seg\u00c3\u00ban la gran ley de la naturaleza\u00e2\u0080\u009d."}, {"label": "Exhibition Label", "content": "Cuando el Congreso Continental adopt\u00c3\u00b3 la resoluci\u00c3\u00b3n de Lee a principios de julio de 1776, \u00c3\u00a9l estaba en Virginia formando un nuevo gobierno estatal. Luego regres\u00c3\u00b3 a Filadelfia para firmar a Declaraci\u00c3\u00b3n de Independencia."}, {"label": "Provenance", "content": "Duncan Lee, Toronto, and his son Gavin Dunbar Lee, descendants of sitter; gift 1974 to NPG"}, {"label": "Provenance", "content": "Contemporary replica of Peale\u00e2\u0080\u0099s museum version made for family."}], "creditLine": [{"label": "Credit Line", "content": "National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Duncan Lee and his son, Gavin Dunbar Lee"}], "name": [{"label": "Artist", "content": "Charles Willson Peale, 15 Apr 1741 - 22 Feb 1827"}, {"label": "Sitter", "content": "Richard Henry Lee, 20 Jan 1732 - 19 Jun 1794"}], "topic": [{"label": "Topic", "content": "Interior"}, {"label": "Topic", "content": "Richard Henry Lee: Male"}, {"label": "Topic", "content": "Richard Henry Lee: Politics and Government\\State Legislator\\Virginia"}, {"label": "Topic", "content": "Richard Henry Lee: Politics and Government\\Congressman\\Continental congressman"}, {"label": "Topic", "content": "Richard Henry Lee: Politics and Government\\Statesman\\Colonial Statesman\\Signer of Declaration"}, {"label": "Topic", "content": "Richard Henry Lee: Natural Resource Occupations\\Agriculturist\\Planter"}, {"label": "Topic", "content": "Richard Henry Lee: Politics and Government\\US Senator\\Virginia"}, {"label": "Topic", "content": "Portrait"}], "physicalDescription": [{"label": "Medium", "content": "Oil on canvas"}, {"label": "Dimensions", "content": "Stretcher: 75.6 x 63.8 x 3.2cm (29 3/4 x 25 1/8 x 1 1/4\")"}, {"label": "Dimensions", "content": "Frame: 88.3 x 75.6 x 5.4cm (34 3/4 x 29 3/4 x 2 1/8\")"}], "dataSource": [{"label": "Data Source", "content": "National Portrait Gallery"}], "objectRights": [{"label": "Restrictions & Rights", "content": "CC0"}], "objectType": [{"label": "Type", "content": "Painting"}]}}, "url": "edanmdm:npg_NPG.74.5", "hash": "14528ffd8283fe39255987e245c83eb9648847b6", "docSignature": "ced28d1e6c3a8eaad11fb272a0666fb3", "timestamp": 1665046589, "lastTimeUpdated": 1665046545, "title": "Richard Henry Lee"}