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Judge Edmund Quincy

1737
oil on canvas
75.56 x 62.86 cm (29 3/4 x 24 3/4 in.)

Museum of Fine Arts

Boston, MA

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Judge Samuel Sewall

1729
oil on canvas
76.2 x 63.5 cm (30 x 25 in.)

Museum of Fine Arts

Boston, MA

notes
Sewall (1652–1730) was among the leading jurists of Massachusetts, serving as chief justice of the Superior Court in the 1720s. Earlier in his career, Sewall presided over the 1692 Salem witch trials (and was the only one of the three judges to publicly recant his role in that event). Today, he is perhaps best known for his copious diary, which...
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Mrs. Francis Brinley And Her Son Francis

1729
oil on canvas
50 x 39 1/4 in. (127 x 99.7 cm)

Metropolitan Museum of Art

New York, NY

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Mrs. James Macsparran (Hannah Gardiner)

1732
oil on canvas
76.83 x 64.13 cm (30 1/4 x 25 1/4 in.)

Museum of Fine Arts

Boston, MA

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Mrs. John Pitts

1735
oil on canvas
Framed: 42 3/4 x 34 7/16 x 2 1/8 in. (108.59 x 87.47 x 5.4 cm) 36 1/8 x 28 3/4 in. 91.8 x 73.0 cm

Detroit Institute of Arts

Detroit, MI

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Mrs. Tyng

1729
oil on canvas
90.8 x 71.44 cm (35 3/4 x 28 1/8 in.)

Museum of Fine Arts

Boston, MA

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Mrs. William Dudley (Elizabeth Davenport)

1729
oil on canvas
91.76 x 71.44 cm (36 1/8 x 28 1/8 in.)

Museum of Fine Arts

Boston, MA

notes
Smibert had been in the colonies only a few months when the Dudleys commissioned him to paint these portraits in the latest continental style. Such portraits were great luxuries, indicating the Dudley's wealth, ambition, and desire to stay abreast of European trends. The rich, skillfully painted fabrics that drape the sitter demonstrate both this and...
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Nathaniel Byfield

1730
oil on canvas
30 x 25 in. (76.2 x 63.5 cm)

Metropolitan Museum of Art

New York, NY

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Parting Of Hector And Andromache

about 1750
oil on canvas
126.68 x 101.6 cm (49 7/8 x 40 in.)

Museum of Fine Arts

Boston, MA

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Portrait Of Major General Paul Mascarene

1729
oil on canvas
40 9/16 x 31 5/8 in. (103 x 80.4 cm)

Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Los Angeles, CA

notes
Museum purchase with funds provided by Mr. and Mrs. William Preston Harrison Collection, Charles H. Quinn Bequest, Eli Harvey, and other donors
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