Nathaniel Hurd (1729-1777)

Your father is a very popular silversmith but he falls on hard times and dies quite poor. You begin a good education but instead of going to college you apprentice in your father's trade. You become famous for your skilled engravings and your customers include many prominent citizens. Like some of your wealthy customers, you commission a portrait of yourself by John Copley. You never marry, but people gossip about the women you bring home. You die young in 1777, leaving your unfinished work to your collea