Joseph Badger
Born Charlestown, Mass., March 14, 1707/8.
Died Boston, May 11, 1765.

Cornelius Waldo, 1750
Oil on canvas
50 x 40 in. (127 x 101.6 cm)
Gift of Hester Newton Wetherell Estate, 1922.213

Inscriptions
Center-right, in black paint, on the left page of the open book: "Memorandum/ Boston/ Novr/ 1750"
Bottom-right, in yellow paint: "Born Nov.r 17.th /––––1684––––/ Painted Novr/–––1750––"

Provenance
Cornelius (1684–1753) and Faith Savage Waldo (1683–1760); their son, Daniel Waldo (1724–1808), and his wife, Rebecca Salisbury Waldo (1731–1811); their daughter, Martha Waldo Lincoln (1761–1828) and her husband, Levi Lincoln (died 1820); Rejoice and Rebecca Lincoln Newton; John Walcott and Hester Newton Wetherell (died 1899). On deposit at the Worcester Art Museum by 1915. Bequest of Hester Newton Wetherell, a direct descendant of the sitter.1

References
Tuckerman 1867, 42.

Worcester Art Society 1891, n.p.

Lincoln 1902, 1, opp. 69.

Park 1914, 10–11.

L[    ]. 1915, [7], 8.

Park 1918a, 5 n 1, 9, 13, 44.

Nutt 1919, 1, 254.

Worcester 1922, 163.

Worcester Annual Report 1923, 15.

"Accessions," Worcester Bulletin 14, no. 1 (April 1923), 29.

Bayley 1929, 5, 47.

Lee 1929, 203–4.

Addison Gallery 1932, n.p.

Sherman 1932, opp. 58.

Worcester Annual Report 1933, 37.

Burroughs 1936, 52.

American Portraits 1939, II, 425, cat. no. 2243.

Burroughs 1943, 60.

Dresser 1949, 110.

Barker 1950, 124, 125.

Parker 1955, 362, 363.

Phillips 1955, 129–30, 157.

Phillips and Parker, 1955, 5–6, 33.

Sellers 1957, 425, 427.

Belknap 1959, 290, 325, and plate 18.

World Art 1959, I, 280.

North Carolina Museum of Art 1963, 3, 4.

Montreal Museum of Fine Arts 1967, n.p.

Brockton Art Center 1969, n.p.

Dresser 1971, 476.

Nylander 1972, 71–72.

Reutlinger 1975, 17.

Sadik 1976, 18, 33, and n 14.

Saunders and Miles 1987, 190.

Exhibitions
Loan Collections of Portraits Exhibited by the Worcester Art Society in the New Public Library Building
, Worcester Art Society, March 31–April, 1891, cat. no. 2.

American Paintings in New England Museums, Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass., May 28–June 22, 1932, cat. no. 1.

Colonial American Portraits and Their English Mezzotint Prototypes: The Discoveries of Waldron Phoenix Belknap, Jr., New-York Historical Society, New York, May 6–October 2, 1955.

Carolina Charter Tercentenary Exhibition, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, March 23–April 28, 1963, cat. no. 1.

The Painter and the New World: A Survey of Painting from 1564 to 1867, Marking the Foundation of Canadian Confederation, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Quebec, June 9–July 30, 1967, cat. no. 117.

Three Centuries of New England Art from New England Museums, New Brockton Art Center, Fuller Memorial, Brockton, Mass., January 15–March 2, 1969, cat. fig. 5.

A Survey of American Portraits, Wellesley College Museum, Wellesley, Mass., November 28, 1970–January 24, 1971.

The Colonial Epoch in America, Worcester Art Museum, April 18, 1975–January 4, 1976, cat. p. 17.

Notes
1. The Waldo portraits’ presence in the museum is documented in a letter from the assistant to the director to Lucy C. Driscoll, Art Institute of Chicago, March 20, 1915. Bequest is made known in Thomas Hovey Gage to Raymond Henniker-Heaton, December 1, 1922. Both letters in object file, Worcester Art Museum.