Early American paintings; catalogue of an exhibition held in the Museum of the Brooklyn instituteof arts and sciences, Brooklyn, February 3d to March 12th, 1917 . u o XH !*P5 O Pdla-id a H Q 2< a. MRS. JOSHUA BABCOCK BY JONATHAN BLACKBURN EARLY AMERICAN PAINTINGS JONATHAN BLACKBURNVery little is available concerning the life of this American-born artist. Dunlap writes: All we know is that he wasnearly contemporary with John Smybert and painted veryrespectable portraits in Boston. He was born in Connecticutabout 1700; he is known to have worked in Boston from 1750to 1765. Tuckerman says that
Early American paintings; catalogue of an exhibition held in the Museum of the Brooklyn instituteof arts and sciences, Brooklyn, February 3d to March 12th, 1917 . u o XH !*P5 O Pdla-id a H Q 2< a. MRS. JOSHUA BABCOCK BY JONATHAN BLACKBURN EARLY AMERICAN PAINTINGS JONATHAN BLACKBURNVery little is available concerning the life of this American-born artist. Dunlap writes: All we know is that he wasnearly contemporary with John Smybert and painted veryrespectable portraits in Boston. He was born in Connecticutabout 1700; he is known to have worked in Boston from 1750to 1765. Tuckerman says that he executed notable portraitsin Boston, Portsmouth, N. H., and other New England towns,and enumerates several of his works. He died after 1765. -j MRS. JOSHUA BABCOCK (1714-1778). The lineage* of the Blackburn portrait of Mrs. Hannah Stanton Babcock,the wife of Chief Justice Babcock of Rhode Island, is asfollows: Mrs. Joshua Babcock (1714-1778) to her son Adam Babcock (1740-1817) to his son William Smith Babcock (1764-c. 1840) to his daughter Elizabeth Smith Babcock (1817-post 1903), wife of Rev. S. S. Mathews (1817—47) to her daughterMartha Ann Mathews (1841-1900), wife of Dr. T. J. Pray,
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