Artist: The Beardsley Limner, American (active ca. 1785–)Subject: Dr. Hezekiah Beardsley, American, 1748–1790, Dr. Hezekiah Beardsley (1748–1790), ca. 1788–90, Oil on canvas, 45 1/2 × 43 5/16 in. ( × 110 cm), In this portrait by an unknown artist and its pair (), a New Haven husband and wife proudly display their material success, but they hold in their hands warnings about the gradual demise of all worldly things. Pediatrician Hezekiah Beardsley rests on his knee Edward Gibbon’s recently published Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

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