biography of Joseph ALLEN (XVII)

Birth place: Dublin

Addresses: New England, c.1684-c.1728

Profession: Watchmaker, engraver, and limner portraitist

Comments: He is known only through a reference to his skill in limning" (1684).

Sources: G&W; Mass. Hist. Soc. Collections (1868), Ser. 4, VIII, 52, contains a letter by and about Allen; Mass. Hist. Soc. Proceedings, X (1867-69); Barker, American Painting, 21-22; Lee, "John Smibert," 119; Dresser, XVIIth Century Painting in New England, 18-19. See also Craven, Colonial American Portraiture, 118."