Reverend John Davenport (1597–1669/70) | Yale University Art Gallery

1670

On view, 1st floor, American Decorative Arts before 1900

A Puritan clergyman, John Davenport left England for Holland in 1633, came to Boston in 1637, and established the New Haven Colony the following year. An eloquent preacher, he was pastor of the First Church for thirty years. After failing in an attempt to prevent New Haven's annexation in 1664 by Connecticut, a disappointed Davenport returned in 1667 to Boston. His portrait was painted there just before or possibly after his death in 1670.

Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 27 1/4 × 23 in. (69.2 × 58.4 cm)
Credit Line: Yale University Art Gallery
Accession Number: 1750.1
Geography: Probably made in Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Culture: American
Period: 17th century
Classification: Paintings
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Bibliography

American Art: Selections from the Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2023), 10, fig. 1

Susan B. Matheson, Art for Yale: A History of the Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2001), 2 (detail), 6–7, fig. 5

Object copyright

No Copyright - United States

Additional information

Object/Work type

portraits

Subject

clergy pastors preachers

Inscriptions

Inscribed LC "dom 1670/*74*"

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