Artist/Maker
Abraham Delanoy
Depicted
Archibald Laidlie
(Scottish, 1722 – 1779)
Archibald Laidlie, DD (1722-1779)
ca. 1767
Oil on canvas
Overall: 39 × 32 in. (99.1 × 81.3 cm)
Framed: 43 3/8 × 36 1/4 × 2 3/8 in. (110.2 × 92.1 × 6 cm)
Framed: 43 3/8 × 36 1/4 × 2 3/8 in. (110.2 × 92.1 × 6 cm)
Gift of Mrs. Walter Pierson in memory of her cousin Richard Varick Dey
1927.3
A native of Kelso, Scotland, Laidlie was ordained in the Church of Scotland in 1759. He accepted a call to the ministry of the Dutch Reformed Church in New York in 1763. This portrait of Dr. Laidlie was painted in New York and reproduced as a mezzotint by John Wesley Jarvis.
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