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Title: The founders; portraits of persons born abroad who came to the colonies in North America before the year 1701, with an introduction, biographical outlines and comments on the portraits
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: Bolton, Charles Knowles, 1867-1950
Subjects: Portraits, American United States -- History Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 Biography
Publisher: (Boston) The Boston athenaeum
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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is first childat the age of fifty-three. In Grangers Biographical History there is an en-graved portrait of Dr. John Richardson, Bishop ofArdagh, dated 1653. He has a ruff and beard. One of the Bowdoin portraits, dated 1647, has a ruff. Martin Tromp (i597-1653) Is a man of mature yearswhen he appears with a ruff. But it must be confessedthat portraits just like Epkes are common about 1620. Blair, Rev. James, 1656-1743. The portrait of Blair is described on pages 81 and609 of this work. The photograph used here wastaken by the Frick Art Reference Library. On page 610 there Is a reference to a miniature ofBlair in the Virginia Historical Societys rooms. It isreproduced in the Virginia Magazine of history andbiography, January, 1923, page 83. Of this pictureMr. Lawrence Park writes: It was probably paintedin England about 1725. Bust, ^ right, gray powderedwig, falling on shoulders, slate gray coat, white neck-cloth and ruffles, gray background, gray buttons on coat.Eyes to spectator. 914
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JAMES BLAIR1656-1743 (915) BoLLiNG Portraits The portraits of members of the Boiling family ofVirginia are in some respects as interesting and com-plete as any in America. They are reproduced in Me-moirs of the Boiling Family (1868)/ The costumeof Robert, the immigrant (i 646-1709), seems correct.That of his son, John (i676-1729), appears to be ofthe period of 1710 (simple, flat cravat), and yet hisface looks rather youthful for a man of thirty-four.His so-called wife, a lady with a veil or shawl over herhead, and three bows in place of clasps on her bodice,might very well be his stepmother, Anne, daughter ofDrury Stith, Robert Boilings second wife. Robert mar-ried her in 1681, and she was living in 1700. Hercostume is not unlike that of Mrs. Thomas Edgar, ofDownham Hall, Suffolk, done in 1694,- when she wasadvanced in age. daughter of Thomas Rolfe b.c. 1650 d. 1676. Jane = Robert Bollinger Anne, daughter 1646-1709. of Drury Stith. Came 1660.m. 1675. John Boiling = Mary Kennononly chi

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