Increase Mather (1639-1723), c. 1720

| Anonymous
| oil on canvas
| 30 x 25 (76.20 x 63.50)
| Gift of Hannah Mather Crocker, 1815
| Weis 79

Ex. Coll.: Mather family; to the sitter’s great-granddaughter, the donor.

Exhibitions:
1864, ‘National Sailors’ Fair,’ Boston Athenaeum, no. 209.

Publications:
Kenneth Murdock, Portraits of Increase Mather (Cleveland, Ohio: privately published, 1924), 46-50, plate 8.
E. C. Stedman and E. M. Hutchinson, A Library of American Literature, 11 vols. (New York: Charles L. Webster and Co., 1888-90), 2: 76.
Justin Winsor, Memorial History of Boston, 4 vols. (Boston: Ticknor and Co., 1880), 1: 587.

 

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