Artist/Maker
Unidentified artist
Possible attribution
Gerardus Duyckinck I
(1695 - 1746)
Possible attribution
Pieter Vanderlyn
(1687 - 1778)
Joseph Hallett (1678-1750)
ca. 1728
Oil on canvas
Unframed: 49 1/2 × 40 1/4 in. (125.7 × 102.2 cm)
Framed: 56 × 47 in. (142.2 × 119.4 cm)
Framed: 56 × 47 in. (142.2 × 119.4 cm)
Bequest of Waldron Phoenix Belknap Jr.
1950.239
The subject was the grandson of William Hallett from Dorsetshire, England, who was awarded the patent for the area around Hallett's Cove (now Astoria), Long Island, and settled there about 1655. This portrait was painted in New York, and was based on a mezzotint by John Smith (1696) after Sir Godfrey Kneller's portrait of John Cecil, Earl of Exeter. The only significant change made by the New York limner was the inclusion of the ship and nautical instruments, evidently appropriate for Hallett.
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