A Portrait of Samuel Finley Attributed to John Hesselius

Abstract

Through extensive primary source research, I was able to uncover evidence that strongly supports the attribution to Hesselius and assembled a more complete history of the picture and the family who owned it for almost two centuries before donating it to the Indianapolis Museum of Art in 1962. I have also unraveled the relationship between this portrait and an 1870 copy by the little-known American painter Charles Walker Lind (c. 1842–c. 1880).

Keywords

• 3.1
• eighteenth-century art
• john hesselius
• megan holloway fort
• samuel finley