Lawrence Kilburn

Miller, hereby acquaints all Gentlemen and Ladies inclined to favour him in having their Pictures drawn, that he don't doubt of pleasing them in taking a true Likeness, and finishing the Drapery in a proper Manner, as also in the Choice of Attitudes, suitable to each Person's Age and Sex, and giving agreeable Satisfaction, as he has heretofore done to Gentlemen and Ladies in London.

Earlier patrons began to abandon him at this point,[5] and it appears from newspaper advertisements that he turned exclusively to mercantile pursuits during the last years of his life.

[4] He was dead by September 21, 1775, when an advertisement in Rivington's N. Y. Gazetteer invited patrons to settle their accounts with his widow and executrix.

The New York Historical Society holds a number of examples of his work, including several portraits of members of the Beekman family[5] and one of Gerardus Stuydevant which was shown at the Centennial Exposition of 1876.

[1] A portrait of Samuel Johnson, first president of Columbia University, is owned by the Century Club, to which it was donated by the artist himself sometime before 1757.