Charles Paxton (1707/8-88), c. 1751

| John Cornish (at work 1751-62)
| oil on canvas
| 29 7/8 x 24 3/4 (75.88 x 62.87)
| inscribed, l.r: ‘[illeg.] Cornish pinxt/17--’
| Gift of ‘a Lady,’ 1814
| Weis 95

Ex. Coll.: Unknown before donor.

Exhibitions:
1891, ‘Portraits by American Artists,’ Worcester Public
Library.
1977, ‘Wellsprings of a Nation,’ Worcester Art Museum.

Publications:
E. Alfred Jones, Loyalists of Massachusetts (London: Saint Catherine Press, 1930), plate 39.
Lillian B. Miller, In the Minds and Hearts of the People: Prologue to the American Revolution, 1760-1774 (Greenwich, Conn.: New York Graphic Society, 1974), 113-14.

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