At the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, is the portrait by an unknown limner (probably Thomas Smith) of Major Thomas Savage (Figure 10), which in pose and manner is reminiscent of the Walker.
Freake and Baby Mary (Figure 8), although Boston’s lady is more finely wrought, more delicately conceived and chiseled.Īt the National Portrait Gallery in London may be found Robert Walker’s portrait of Oliver Cromwell, the Puritan leader and Parliamentary Protector of the British Empire (Figure 9). In the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford, we find a portrait of an unknown woman (Figure 7), a member of the Trandescant Family, whose portraits by De Crivitz were collected early in the seventeenth century by Elias Ashmole to become the basis of Oxford’s first museum. Here in the center of the Puritan rebellion, the heart of East Anglia, we find splendid examples of English provincial art, which in pose, style, and accessories remind us of portraits hanging in Boston today. With their hands resting on a skull (Figure 5), they speak to human vanity and testify to the human condition they hold the gloves of the gentleman, the book of the scholar, the bell, book and candle of the man of the church (Figure 6), the staff of the magistrate. Here they stand or sit, mayors of Norwich or benefactors, priests, bishops, merchants, sheriffs, or magistrates, Norwich’s pride painted at municipal expense as examples of virtue and honor for future generations to emulate. Andrews and Blackfriars Hall in Norwich, England, hangs an array of portraits on four long walls, all similar in costume, pose, and accessories, but dating, as they tell us, over a hundred-year span from the early sixteenth to the seventeenth century. MILLER The Puritan Portrait: Its Function in Old and New England New England and a Wider World: Notes on Some Central Themes of Modern Historiography.“Heated” Speech and Literacy in Seventeenth-Century New England.
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