H407: Increase Mather (1639-1723), after van der Spriett
Paintings
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- H407
- People
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Alexander Robertson James, American (Cambridge, MA 1890 - 1946 Dublin, NH)
After Jan van der Spriett, Dutch (Delft, Holland born c. 1650 London, England (?))
Increase Mather (1639 - 1723)
- Title
- Increase Mather (1639-1723), after van der Spriett
- Classification
- Paintings
- Work Type
- painting
- Date
- 1931
- Places
- Creation Place: North America, United States
- Culture
- American
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/304768
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
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123.3 x 102.8 cm (48 9/16 x 40 1/2 in.)
framed: 149.2 x 128.6 x 7.6 cm (58 3/4 x 50 5/8 x 3 in.) - Inscriptions and Marks
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- label: wooden plaque, wood: INCREASE MATHER/1639-1732/Copy by Alexander James
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- William G. Mather; his gift to Harvard University, 1931.
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard University Portrait Collection, Gift of William G. Mather to the University, 1931
- Object Number
- H407
- Division
- Modern and Contemporary Art
- Contact
- am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Descriptions
- Description
- Original by van der Spriett is in collection of the Massachusetts Historical Society.
Publication History
- Kenneth B. Murdock, Portraits of Increase Mather (Cleveland, OH, 1924)
- Laura M. Huntsinger, Harvard Portraits: A Catalogue of Portrait Paintings at Harvard University, ed. Alan Burroughs, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1936), p. 95
- Donald K. Yeomans, "Origin of North American Astronomy - Seventeenth Century", Isis, History of Science Society (Washington, D.C., 1977), p. 420
- Andrew Oliver, Ann Millspaugh Huff, and Edward W. Hanson, Portraits in the Massachusetts Historical Society: An Illustrated Catalogue with Descriptive Matter, Massachusetts Historical Society (Boston, MA, 1988), p. 68
- Ken Bresler, The Witch Trial Trail of Boston and the Harvard Witch Walk: The People and Places of Boston and Harvard Connected with the Salem Witch Trials (2023), p. 50, repr.
Verification Level
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