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- Title:
Benjamin Moreland, High Master of St. Paul's School
- Date:
- 1724
- Medium:
- 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
- Link to Frame:
- B1981.25.576FR
- Subject Terms:
- buckles | costume | cravat | curtain | Georgian | gesture | headmaster | knowledge | library | man | portrait | reading | robes | ruffles | scholar | school | shelves | teacher | teaching | wig
- Associated People:
- Moreland, Benjamin
- Access:
- Not on view
Note: To make an appointment to see this work, please contact the Paintings and Sculpture department at ycba.paintings@yale.edu. Please visit the Paintings and Sculpture collections page on our website for more details. - Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:1056
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