Image:1670 davenport.jpg
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Image of the Rev John Davenport dated 1670, unknown artist
Uploaded from: <http://www.yale.edu/yuag/myer/> as a part of the Myer Myers Jewish Silversmith in Colonial New York exhibit at the Yale University Art Gallery (YUAG), which had been ongoing until September 13, 2002.
This image is still available for all to use, however, on the Internet; but high resolution copies are only available as follows...
To get to the image from the above website, click the "1630" link, then click the "more info" link underneath the illustration.
No indication is given as to where the painting in now located; presumably it is still owned by Yale University.
They post the following disclaimer on this website...
- "Material in this timeline has been drawn from Bernard Bailyn et al.,The Great Republic: A History of the American People (Boston: Little, Brown, 1977) and Laurence Urdang, ed., The Timetables of American History (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1996), and visitors may consult these sources for further information.
The visitors spoken of here, were those who had visited the exhibition prior to its closing in 2002.
- Their website is located at: <http://artgallery.yale.edu/>
- Their "Contact Us" page is located at: <http://artgallery.yale.edu/pages/contact.html>
- Their "Public Information" e-mail is located at: <mailto:artgalleryinfo@yale.edu>
- "Rights and Reproductions" is located at: <mailto:yuag.rightsandrepro@yale.edu>
- PDF Form for same is at: <http://artgallery.yale.edu/pdf/rights_repro.pdf>
Fair Use is claimed here, since images of the picture have been published in the past, and can again be located, albeit with a far crisper resolution. It is presumed that the "permission image" will also be of a high resolution, which is not witnessed here.
Further, sorry to say, this may not even be an accurate painting of John Davenport, as it bears a striking resemblance to one published by Samuel Eliot Morison in his Builders of the Bay Colony (1930) – that he identifies as a painting of the Rev John Wheelright – and to others published elsewhere, indicating the this may have in fact been an American Folk Painting that was painted at around the same time that Yale University bought it in 1750, and was an ill-fated copy of a Rembrant self portrait (John Davenport died in 1670, therefore, this couldn't have been painted while the subject was still alive).
Therefore, it is hard to determine as to whether or not there could be any copyright violation here, since the original painting itself is possibly a fake; and those – such as the uploader himself – who are descendants of such persons are duly "offended" by its subsequent publication by anybody, as it is an intended insult.
But not necessarily; so as a partial mediation, I've uploaded here so that possibility of its correct identification may be maximized &ndash: as the University should more than welcome.
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