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Identification and Creation

Object Number
H407
People
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
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
  • 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
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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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