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Judge Samuel Sewall
Samuel Sewall (; March 28, 1652 – January 1, 1730) was a judge, businessman, and printer in the Province of Massachusetts Bay, best known for his involvement in the Salem witch trials, for which he later apologized, and his essay ''The Selling of Joseph'' (1700), which criticized slavery. He served for many years as the chief justice of the Massachusetts Superior Court of Judicature, the province's high court. Biography Sewall was born in Bishopstoke, Hampshire, England, on March 28, 1652, the son of Henry and Jane ( Dummer) Sewall. His father, son of the mayor of Coventry, had come to the English North American Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1635, where he married Sewall's mother and returned to England in the 1640s. Following the Restoration of Charles II to the English throne, the Sewalls again crossed the Atlantic in 1661, settling in Newbury, Massachusetts. It is there the young Samuel "Sam" grew up along the Parker River and Plum Island Sound. Like other lo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Smibert
John Smibert (rarely spelled Smybert; ; 24 March 1688 – 2 April 1751) was a Scottish-born painter, regarded as the first academically trained artist to live and work regularly in British America. Career Born in Edinburgh on 24 March 1688, Smibert was the second youngest of six children of Alison and John Smibert, a litster, or wool dyer. From 1702–1709, he was apprenticed to a house painter and plasterer in Edinburgh. On moving to London in 1709Richard H. Saunders, John Smibert: Colonial America's first portrait painter, Yale University Press, 1995. he worked as a coach painter and copyist. 1713-1716, he studied under Godfrey Kneller at the Great Queen Street Academy, then returned to Edinburgh, seeking work as portraitist. Smibert travelled to Italy from 1719 to 1722 to copy old masters and then settled in London where he worked as a portrait painter from 1722-1728. Smibert became a member of the Rose and Crown Club and made a sketch for a group portrait of its members, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
