Reverend Joseph Sewall (1688-1769) Artist: John Smibert (American, born Scotland, 1688–1751)

ca. 1735

American Paintings and Sculpture

Not on view
Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

29 7/8 × 24 3/4 in. (75.9 × 62.9 cm)

Credit Line

Bequest of Ruby P. Woolsey in memory of her husband, T. Salisbury Woolsey, Jr., B.A. 1901

Accession Number

1973.62

Culture
Period

18th century

Classification
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Bibliography
  • Richard H. Saunders, John Smibert: colonial America's first portrait painter (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1995), 166–67, no. 61
  • Henry Wilder Foote, John Smibert, painter; with a descriptive catalogue of portraits and notes on the work of Nathaniel Smibert (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1950), 188-189
  • Art and Progress (February 1912), 485
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Object/Work type

portraits

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