During America's colonial days and first decades of independence, artists kept close contact with England. Often, they studied in London, assimilating British style and subject matter. Also, American artists and patrons avidly acquired British imports of fine and applied arts such as furniture and design. The objects in this gallery include those created in the colonies and later the states; those manufactured in England for a specifically American audience; and finally those pieces created in England for a British audience but whose style impacted a transatlantic audience.