Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
John Smibert, 1688–1751, British, active in America (from 1728)
Title:
Benjamin Moreland, High Master of St. Paul's School
Date:
1724
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
95 1/4 x 59 inches (241.9 x 149.9 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in brown paint, across bottom: "This portrait of Benjamin Moreland, now first master of St. Paul's School, was presented to the company by a society of gentlemen, educated by him at Hackney, as a testimonial of their esteem and gratitude"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1981.25.576
Classification:
Paintings
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Subject Terms:
reading | teaching | man | scholar | teacher | headmaster | Georgian | knowledge | gesture | school | ruffles | buckles | shelves | portrait | wig | cravat | robes | costume | curtain | library
Currently On View:
Not on view
Publications:
An Antiques Book Preview : The Notebook of John Smibert, Antiques, vol. 95, March 1969, pp. 364-365, NK 1125 +A3 Oversize (HAAS)

Luke Beckerdite, American Furniture 2004, The Chipstone Foundation, Hanover and London, 2004, p. 168, fig. 20, available online at chipstone.org

Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 204-205, N590.2 .A83 (YCBA)

John Smibert (1688-1751) : Anglo-American Portrait Painter [PhD Dissertation, Yale University], New Haven, CT, 1979, pp. 75-76 (v.1), 128 (v.1), 5 (v.2), 57 (v.2), pl. 50, Film B63 (YCBA)

John Smibert (1688-1751) : Anglo-American Portrait Painter [PhD Dissertation, Yale University], New Haven, CT, 1979, pp. 75-76 (v.1), 128 (v.1), 5 (v.2), 57 (v.2), pl. 50, available online via ProQuest

Jules D. Prown, Review : The Notebook of John Smibert, The Art Bulletin, vol. 52, September 1970, p. 330, N11 +C4 Oversize (YCBA) Also available online at JSTOR

Richard Henry Saunders, John Smibert : Colonial America's First Portrait Painter, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 1995, pp. 49, 145-146, no. 22, pl. 8, NJ18 Sm4 A12 S28 1995 (YCBA)

John Smibert, The Notebook of John Smibert : With Essays by Sir David Evans, John Kerslake, and Andrew Oliver, and with Notes Relating to Smibert's American Portraits by Andrew Oliver, Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston, 1969, pp. 12-30, 80, NJ18 Sm4 A12 1969 (YCBA)

Ellis Waterhouse, Dictionary of British 18th Century Painters in Oils and Crayons, Antique Collectors' Club, Woodbridge, Suffolk, 1981, pp. 349-350, ND466 +.W38 Oversize (YCBA)
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:1056