Pollard Limner

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Pollard Limner: Anne Pollard at one hundred years of age, oil on canvas, 1721, Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston Massachusetts

As Pollard Limner one is a portrait painter called, the 1690-1730 in the region around Boston in New England worked. The artist, who is not known by name, got his emergency name after his portrait of Mrs. Anne Pollard.

Artisans and painters

The Pollard Limner was more likely to work as a craftsman and his portrait painting was a sideline. 8 to 12 received images are assigned to him due to stylistic similarities. These are less important because of the skill of their painter than because of their reference to the colonial history of the American continent.

Image of Anne Pollard

The picture of Anne Pollard was taken in 1721. This was about 100 years after the first European settlers came to the region with the Mayflower . It was already assumed during Anne Pollard's lifetime that she came to Boston as a child on a ship following the Mayflower in 1630. An inscription on the picture says that Anne Pollard was 100 years old when she was portrayed. The image is now in the possession of the Massachusetts Historical Society in Boston.

Stylistic classification

The Pollard Limner is counted among the painters of the epoch called "Colonial Geogian" in English , ie among the painters in the style epoch at the time of the British monarch George III. He probably had no formal training as a painter, but the portraits ascribed to him show that he was familiar with the baroque style elements of European painting of that time. In the tight portrait of Anne Pollard he paints even closer to the Puritan ideals of the colonies. The portrait of Henry Gibbs, which is attributed to Pollard Limner , is considered to be one of the best artistically portraits made in Boston before 1729. After that, painters trained in England like John Smibert came to Boston.

interpretation

The portraits from the early days of English colonization are generally examples of the need for self-expression that economically successful and wealthy citizens of the colony developed after the years of development. The fact that Anne Pollard is the wife of an innkeeper may be related to her connection to the founders of the colony.

Works (selection)

The Pollard Limner usually painted his half-portraits in the format of about 70 cm high and 50 to 60 cm wide in oil on canvas. The following images are attributed to him:

  • Anne Pollard at the age of 100. 1721. Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston Massachusetts. (Inventory number 01.017)
  • Elisha Cook, senior. Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts
  • Mary Gardner Coffin (Mrs. Jethro Coffin). Nantucket Historical Association, Nantucket, Massachusetts
  • Henry Gibbs. 1721. Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago. (Inventory number The Goodmann Fund 1967.171)
  • Young woman from the Sylvanus Bourne family. Privately owned (Pennsylvania)
  • Stephen Greenleaf, Junior. 1722. Nantucket Historical Association, Nantucket, Massachusetts (inventory number 75-101 PFM)
  • Judge Benjamin Lynde. About 1730. Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts
  • William Metcalf. Around 1730. The National Gallery of Art, Washington. (Inventory number 1980.61.1 (2785))
  • Anne Pattershall. 1720. Private ownership.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Richard H. Saunders: John Smibert: Colonial America's First Portrait Painter . Yale 1995, p. 65.
  2. ↑ James Thomas Flexner: History of American Painting Volume 1: First Flowers of Our Wilderness . Boston, MA, 1947, p. 48
  3. ↑ Jehle, Michael A., (Ed.): "Picturing Nantucket: An Art History of The Island With Paintings from the Collection of The Nantucket Historical Association. Works by Artists Born Before 1900". Nantucket, MA, 2000, figure 190
  4. ↑ George Michael Cohen: American Art Essentials - Quick Access to the Important Facts and Concepts . Picataways, New Jersey 2001
  5. ↑ cf. Waldron Phoenix Belknap, Jr .: American Colonial Painting: Materials for a History . Cambridge, MA 1959, p. 272.
  6. ↑ George Michael Cohen: American Art Essentials . Picataways, New Jersey 2001, p. 14
  7. ^ Richard H. Saunders: John Smibert: Colonial America's First Portrait Painter . Yale 1995, p. 65.
  8. ↑ Jonathan L .; Fairbanks; Robert F. Trent (Ed.): New England Begins: The Seventeenth Century. Volume III . Boston, Massachusetts 1983., p. 475.
  9. ↑ Freake Painter . In: Ann Lee Morgan: The Oxford Dictionary of American Art and Artists . Oxford 2007, p. 165.
  10. ^ Louis B. Wright: The Cultural Life of the American Colonies . Dover 2002, p. 108.
  11. ^ Pollard Limner (search term) . In: Smithsonian American Art Museums (ed.): Art Inventories Catalog. Without location 2014 (online database, accessed December 2014)
  12. ^ Richard H. Saunders, Ellen G. Miles: American Colonial Portraits, 1700-1776 . Washington, 1987, p. 5.
  13. ^ Wayne Craven, Colonial American Portraiture: The Economic, Religious, Social, Cultural, Philosophical, Scientific and Aesthetic Foundations . New York 1986, p. 48.

literature

  • Waldron Phoenix Belknap, Jr .: American Colonial Painting: Materials for a History . Cambridge, Massachusetts 1959.
  • Jonathan L Fairbanks, Robert F. Trent (Eds.): New England Begins: The Seventeenth Century. Volume III. Boston, Massachusetts 1983.
  • Wayne Craven: Colonial American Portraiture: The Economic, Religious, Social, Cultural, Philosophical, Scientific and Aesthetic Foundations . New York 1986.
  • Richard H. Saunders, Ellen G. Miles: American Colonial Portraits, 1700–1776 . Washington 1987.
  • George Michael Cohen: American Art Essentials - Quick Access to the Important Facts and Concepts . Picataways, New Jersey 2001.
  • Elisabeth Louise Roark: Artists of Colonial America . Westport 2003.

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personal data
SURNAME Pollard Limner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Anglo-American colonial painter
DATE OF BIRTH 17th century
DATE OF DEATH 18th century