The Pollard Limner

American, active c. 1690/1730

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itinerant portrait painter active ca. 1690-1730 in the area around Boston, Massachusetts

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The Pollard Limner, Possibly William Metcalf, c. 1730, oil on canvas, Gift of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch, 1980.61.1

Possibly William Metcalf

The Pollard Limner · c. 1730 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1980.61.1

Bibliography

1947

  • Flexner, James Thomas. American Painting: First Flowers of Our Wilderness. Boston, 1947: 46-51, 270, 285.

1982

  • Di Curcio, Robert A. Art on Nantucket: The History of Painting on Nantucket Island. Nantucket, Massachusetts, 1982: 1-2, 22, 23, 26-27, 243.

  • Fairbanks, Jonathan, and Robert Trent. New England Begins: The Seventeenth Century. 3 vols. Exh. cat. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1982: 3:420-421, 475.

1992

  • Chotner, Deborah, with contributions by Julie Aronson, Sarah D. Cash, and Laurie Weitzenkorn. American Naive Paintings. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 1992: 287-288.