Cotton Mather (1663-1728), c. 1750

| Anonymous
| after Peter Pelham (1697-1751)
| oil on canvas
| 32 x 27 1/4 (81.2800 x 69.2150)
| Gift of Hannah Mather Crocker, 1815
| Weis 78

Ex. Coll.: the Mather family, owned in 1814 by the donor, the sitter's great-granddaughter.

Exhibitions:
1864, "National Sailors’ Fair," Boston Athenaeum, no. 211 as by Peter Pelham.
1891, "Portraits by American Artists," Worcester Public Library.
1911, "Exhibition of Colonial Portraits," Metropolitan Museum of Art, no. 25.
1921-22, “Loan Exhibition of English and American Paintings of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries,” Worcester Art Museum.
1939, "Life in America for Three Hundred Years," Metropolitan Museum of Art, no. 8.
1943, "New England Painting 1770-1775," Worcester Art Museum.
1950, "Life in America," Denver Art Museum.

Publications:
Exhibition of Colonial Portraits, (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1911), 58-59.
Life in America for Three Hundred Years, (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1938), 4-5.
Frederick Weis, The Colonial Clergy and the Colonial Churches of New England (Lancaster, Massachusetts: Society of the Descendants of the Colonial Clergy, 1938), 48.

 

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