. The founders; portraits of persons born abroad who came to the colonies in North America before the year 1701, with an introduction, biographical outlines and comments on the portraits. 4% inches in eyes are brown, the complexion ruddy, and the velvetcoat is golden brown. The engraving in Drakes Historyand Antiquities of Boston, 1856, page 158, made bySmith, and the one in Thompsons History of Boston,England, 1856, page 412, engraved by Flowers, are fromthis painting, but both engravings have bands. Perhaps theengravers thought that the pleasant subject of the portraitwould not pass
. The founders; portraits of persons born abroad who came to the colonies in North America before the year 1701, with an introduction, biographical outlines and comments on the portraits. 4% inches in eyes are brown, the complexion ruddy, and the velvetcoat is golden brown. The engraving in Drakes Historyand Antiquities of Boston, 1856, page 158, made bySmith, and the one in Thompsons History of Boston,England, 1856, page 412, engraved by Flowers, are fromthis painting, but both engravings have bands. Perhaps theengravers thought that the pleasant subject of the portraitwould not pass muster as a clergyman if he retained hislaymans neck-cloth, hence the bands. The origin of theCotton tradition is unknown, but the face has a surprisingresemblance to Pelhams engraved portrait of CottonMather. 561 Professor Chester N. Greenough writes on May 21,1917 : I have studied certain aspects of the life and workof John Cotton, but I have not yet had time to look intothe matter of his portraits beyond seeing that it is a difficultproblem, on which some one must do a lot of work beforewe can be certain of the authenticity of the Thayer portraitand the one with the bands. 562. Called THE REV. JOHN COTTON of Boston 1585-1652 (563) Darnall, Colonel. Mrs. E. C. Daingerfield, at her death, left a group ofportraits to the Peabody Institute, of Baltimore. Thesepaintings once hung in Poplar Hall, at Poplar Hill, PrinceGeorge County, Maryland, erected about 1735. Beforethat date they were probably at the Wood Yard memorandum, which accompanied the bequest, anddescribed them as they hung on the walls, is said to be inMrs. Daingerfields handwriting, and is reprinted froma copy made by L. H. Dielman, Esq., to which are nowadded annotations based on photographs obtained fromMr. Dielman, but not reproduced here because the ascrip-tions are so uncertain. Portraits in the HallI. First proprietor who built the Wood Yard House,Philip Darnall of London, In wig Note.—Philip Darna
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