. A history of the rise and progress of the arts of design in the United States. the Hall; Providing all due Care be taken by him,that no Injury be done to sd Picture. This was the portrait ofThomas Hollis, late of London, a most generous benefactor to Har-vard College, who had died in 1731 aged 71. It was painted in 1722by Joseph Highmore and was given to the College on request ofPresident Leverett and Mr. Colman. Pelhams mezzotint was issuedSeptember 17, 1751, and many years after his step-son John SingletonCopley painted from it a portrait to replace the original burnt in thefire of 1764. A
. A history of the rise and progress of the arts of design in the United States. the Hall; Providing all due Care be taken by him,that no Injury be done to sd Picture. This was the portrait ofThomas Hollis, late of London, a most generous benefactor to Har-vard College, who had died in 1731 aged 71. It was painted in 1722by Joseph Highmore and was given to the College on request ofPresident Leverett and Mr. Colman. Pelhams mezzotint was issuedSeptember 17, 1751, and many years after his step-son John SingletonCopley painted from it a portrait to replace the original burnt in thefire of 1764. An unsigned mezzotint of President Holyoke, dated1749, is probably his work and he also engraved The City andFortress of Louisburg, September 18, 1746. All of his engravedwork both in England and America is in mezzotint. Portrait painting and engraving would not keep a growing familyin Boston at that time and Pelham is found constantly in the papersadvertising his various accomplishments. On December 30, 1731, aninstrumental concert was given in his Great Room, late Dr. Noyess. REV. JOHN CLARKE1755 - 1798By William Lovett From^thc collection of the Essex Institute, Salem, Mass. ADDENDA 325 house, on Queen (now Court) Street. He had added a Dancing Schoolby November 23, 1732, when an irate inhabitant devoted a columnand a quarter of a newspaper to remonstrating against his MonthlyAssemblies. In 1734 he taught writing, reading, dancing, paintingand needlework, and on April 5 was considering breaking up house-keeping but was saved from that by his marriage to his second August 12, 1735, he was succeeded as Dancing Teacher in QueenStreet, by Thomas Brownell, who died there October, 1737. Pelhamhad continued teaching, however, and on February 6, 1738, he kepthis school in the house of Philip Dumaresque in Summer Street, nexthis own, and to his employment as a teacher had added painting onglass. On May 30, 1743, his son, Peter Jr., came home, after a nineyearsmusical education
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