Richard Mather (1569-1669), c. 1665

| Attributed to John Foster (1648-81)
| oil on canvas
| 30 x 25 (76.20 x 63.500)
| Gift of Hannah Mather Crocker, 1815
| Weis 81

Ex. Coll.: sitter, to his son Increase Mather, to his son Cotton Mather, to his son Dr. Samuel Mather, to his daughter the donor.

Exhibitions:
1864, "National Sailors’ Fair," Boston Athenaeum, no. 208.
1932, "XVIIth Century Painting in New England," Worcester Art Museum.

Publications:
Charles K. Bolton, The Founders: Portraits of Persons Born Abroad  (Boston: Boston Athenaeum, 1919), 2: 421.
Old Time New England 15 (October 1924): frontispiece.
Louisa Dresser, XVIIth Century Painting in New England, (Worcester: Worcester Art Museum, 1935), 103-7.

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