Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Papers of Sir William Johnson, Vol. 2: Prepared for Publication by the Division of Archives and History
Our interest in this centers in the last paragraph. From this it is evident that the portrait was made about 1750. There may be some question as to the use of the word drawn in connection with an Oil portrait. From this word it might be maintained that this letter refers to a drawing and not to an oil painting. The idea would be that Johnson had a drawing made from which some painter was to make a portrait in oil. The word draw, however, was used then as now with reference to portraits in oil. Samuel Pepys in his Diary written in the century preceding uses the word thus.
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