Samuel Mather (1674-1733), c. 1725

| Attr. Richard Philips (1681-1741)
| oil on canvas
| 29 3/4 x 25 (75.57 x 63.50)
| inscribed, at right: ‘VIVERE EST/COGITARE’
| Gift of Hannah Mather Crocker, 1815
| Weis 83

Ex. Coll.: Mather family; to sitter’s grandniece, the donor.

Exhibitions:
1864, ‘National Sailors’ Fair,’ Boston Athenaeum, no. 207, as ‘Samuel Mather of Dublin.’

Publications:
Charles K. Bolton, The Founders: Portraits of Persons Born Abroad, 3 vols. (Boston: Boston Athenaeum, 1926), 3: 518, 875-80.
Horace Mather, Lineage of Reverend Richard Mather (Hartford, Conn.: Case, Lockwood and Brainard & Co., 1890), 100.

 

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