Colonel Guy Johnson and Karonghyontye (Captain David Hill) by Benjamin West https://www.nga.gov/artworks/569-colonel-guy-johnson-and-karonghyontye-captain-david-hill
Hostilities between North American colonists and Britain were boiling over in the 1770s when Benjamin West painted this double portrait. The British wanted to ensure the loyalty of the Mohawk people, the easternmost tribe of the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois Confederacy), in case of war.
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