John Chandler (1720/21-1800), 18th-century
| Anonymous
| oil on canvas
| 25 3/4 x 21 5/8 (65.4050 x 54.9275)
| Gift of Lucretia Chandler Bancroft on behalf of the Family of Reverend Aaron Bancroft, 1839
| Weis 28
Ex. Coll.: Sitter, to his second wife Mary Church Chandler (d. 1783), to her step-daughter, the donor.
Publications:
William Lincoln and Charles Hershey, History of Worcester (Worcester: Charles Hersey, 1862): 231. Engraving by Hezekiah Wright (b. 1828).
George Chandler, The Chandler Family (Worcester, Massachusetts, 1872, 1883): 227. Wright engraving.
Andrew McFarland Davis, Confiscation of John Chandler's Estate (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin Co., 1907): frontispiece.
Clarence W. Bowen, History of Woodstock, Connecticut (Norwood, Massachusetts: Plimpton Press, 1926): 142.
Edward A. Jones, Loyalists of Massachusetts (London: St. Catherine's Press, 1930): 81, pl. 10 (incorrectly as by Winthrop Chandler).
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