The Reverend Dr. Ezra Stiles
Samuel King
1770 · Watercolor on ivory · The American Wing
The sitter (1727-1795) was a lawyer, scholar, Congregationalist minister, and, later, president of Yale College. He recorded in his diary for May 30, 1770: "This day Mr Samuel King took my picture in miniature."
- Artist
- Samuel King
- Date
- 1770
- Medium
- Watercolor on ivory
- Culture
- American
- Department
- The American Wing
- Credit line
- Gift of J. William Middendorf II, 1968
