Peter Pelham
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Peter Pelham was an American portrait painter and engraver, born in England.
John, Lord Carteret, c. 1720, after Godfrey Kneller, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Oliver Cromwell, 1723, after Robert Walker, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Edward Cooper, 1724, after Jan van der Vaart, British Museum, London
Cotton Mather, c. 1727–1728, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
Cotton Mather
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Cotton Mather was a Puritan clergyman and author in colonial New England, who wrote extensively on theological, historical, and scientific subjects. After being educated at Harvard College, he joined
Peter Pelham
…various dates for his emigration have been suggested, the record of Peter Pelham's activities at Boston is well established. His portrait of the Rev. Cotton Mather, now at the American Antiquarian Society in Worcester, was painted as copy for the very familiar mezzotint engraving, reproduced frequently. "Proposals…
Portrait by Peter Pelham, 1727
John Cotton (1585–1652)
Holograph copy of Cotton Mather's letter of advice to John Richards concerning the impending trials at Salem, May 31, 1692
The Return of Several Ministers, written in Cotton Mather's hand