Portraits Record
Images
Metadata
Catalog Number |
PA.134 |
Title |
Reverend Ebenezer Pemberton |
Artist |
unknown |
Date |
1700 before |
Description |
Ebenezer Pemberton (1671-1717), minister of Old South Church in Boston, graduated from Harvard College, where he served as library-keeper (1693-1697), tutor, and Fellow (1707-1717). Portrait. Adult Male Subject. Mid-waist length view. He is turned 3/4ths to his left, while he gazes at the viewer. He has brown hair. He is wearing clerical robes and lace collar. |
Object Name |
Painting |
Medium |
Oil Paint |
Material |
Canvas |
Dimensions |
H-75.6 W-64.1 cm |
Credit line |
Bequest of Mrs. Andrew Chalmers Wilson |
Provenance |
1962, November - Bequest of Mrs. Andrew Chalmers Wilson |
Collection |
Painting |
People |
Wilson, Mary Fuller Sturges, 1870 - 1962 unknown Pemberton, Ebenezer, 1671-1717 |
Notes |
Formerly #126. A painting of Reverend Ebenezer Pemberton by John Smibert is listed in the W.P.A. Preliminary Checklist of American Portraits, 1620-1825. It is an oil, 39" x 25", owned by Mrs. Edwin Babcock of Westerly in 1892. Smibert did not reach America until 1729, while Pemberton's death date is given as 1717. Could the Redwood Library portrait of Pemberton be the original from which Smibert made the Westerly copy? See Sibley's Harvard Graduates, vol. 4: 108 for ...of this portrait. "H. Fletcher Sculpture." 1975-76 (July-June) Newport Restoration Foundation, Whitehorse Tavern, Thames Street |
Related Publications |
Annual Report 1962-63; ACC Pemberton; Minute Nov 1962 |