The Reverend Ebenezer Turell

Artist John Smibert (American, 1688 - 1751)

Date1734

MediumOil on canvas

DimensionsFramed: H 35 1/4 x W 30 1/4 in. (H 89.5 x W 76.8 cm)
Image: H 29 3/4 x W 24 3/4 in. (H 75.6 x W 62.9 cm)

Credit LinePurchase 1972 Katherine Coffey Fund and The Members' Fund

Object number72.347

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Primary Title The Reverend Ebenezer Turell

Marks and Labels/Stampsback of frame: u.l. paper label "NO. 69862 / FRAME"ProvenanceReverend Benjamin Colman (subject's father-in-law); to Reverend Ebenezer Rurell (by bequest, 1774); to his great nephew Turell Tufts (by bequest 1778); to First Parish, Medford, Massachusetts (by bequest 1842), later Unitarian Universalist Church of Medford (1960)Exhibition History"Aspects of a Collection: 18th-19th Century American Paintings from The Newark Museum", Knoedler Gallery, New York, New York (March 1977)

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