selected. George Clymer was chosen to be the first President. His portrait, by Charles Willson Peale, now hangs in the Directors' Room of the Academy. His successors in office have been:
Joseph Hopkinson,
Joseph Dugan,
Edward L. Carey,
Joseph R. Ingersoll,
Henry D. Gilpin,
Caleb Cope,
James L. Claghorn,
George S. Pepper.
The first honorary members of the Academy were Benjamin West, then in London and President of the Royal Academy, Robert Fulton and Bushrod Washington; and among the Directors who have served the Institution since 1806 we find the names of
Samuel F. Bradford,
Reeves Lewis,
Thomas Cadwalader,
Thomas Sully,
Joseph Allen Smith,
William Strickland,
John C. Montgomery,
Franklin Peale,
Charles Graff,
John Neagle,
Henry Inman,
Thomas Biddle,
William S. Biddle,
John Reynell Coates,
Hyman Gratz,
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