Focus on Congress Voting Independence and explain the Identification of portraits.
Most of the Founding Fathers in the portrait can be identified. The central figures are the Committee of Five, which was charged by the Second Continental Congress with drafting the Declaration of Independence, including (from left to right): John Adams from the Province of Massachusetts Bay, Roger Sherman from Connecticut Colony, Robert R. Livingston from the Province of New York, Thomas Jefferson from the Colony of Virginia, and Benjamin Franklin (seated) from the Province of Pennsylvania.
In the foreground on the left is Samuel Adams from the Province of Massachusetts Bay, and Robert Morris (wearing white) from the Province of Pennsylvania. Above Samuel Adams is Robert Treat Paine from the Province of Massachusetts Bay, and above him is Benjamin Rush from the Province of Pennsylvania. Immediately to the left of Samuel Adams is Samuel Chase from the Province of Maryland, and above Robert Morris (wearing dark) is Benjamin Harrison from the Colony of Virginia.
Robert Morris Maryland John Adams Robert R. Livingston Pennsylvania Province of Pennsylvania Robert Treat Paine Benjamin Franklin Committee of Five Samuel Adams Samuel Chase Virginia Declaration of Independence Roger Sherman Province of Maryland Founding Fathers Colony of Virginia Province of Massachusetts Bay Province of New York Continental Congress Connecticut Colony Thomas Jefferson Second Continental Congress Connecticut Benjamin Harrison Benjamin Rush Massachusetts