http://compuball.com/Inquisition/declaration_of_independence.htm

Above is an article about signing of US Declaration Of Independence, illustrated by 2 pix which seem to me to show that some US gentlemen did wear wigs, but not all. I should like to see a comparable British group portrait of the period in which some wore them, others not, as in these examples. My feeling is that an English gentleman of the period would no more have appeared in public without his wig than without his breeches.

Look at the two group illustrations, e.g., from this wiki entry on Zoffany

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Zoffany

Or this Christie catalogue family group, anonymous C18, in which the little boy, as well as his father, wears a wig

http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?intObjectID=5465708

~M~