Thomas Prince (1687-1758), c. 1750

| Joseph Badger (1708-65)
| after John Greenwood (1727-92)
| oil on canvas
| 30 1/2 x 25 (77.47 x 63.50)
| Gift of Henry Prentiss, 1836
| Weis 97

Ex. Coll.: Unknown before the donor.

Exhibitions:
1942, ‘John Greenwood in America,’ Addison Gallery, Andover, Massachusetts.
1974, ‘Paul Revere’s Boston,’ Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, no. 71.
1977, ‘Wellsprings of a Nation,’ Worcester Art Museum, no. 48.
1995, ‘Historic Treasures from Central Massachusetts Historical Societies,’ Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg, Massachusetts.

Publications:
John Fiske, New France and New England (Cambridge, Mass.: Riverside Press, 1904), 209.
Hamilton A. Hill, History of the Old South Church, 2 vols. (Boston: Houghton Mifflin & Co., 1890), 1: 390.
Lawrence Park, Joseph Badger (Boston: Boston University Press, 1918), 32.
Sibley’s Harvard Graduates, s.v. ‘Prince, Thomas.’

 

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