( fl ?Boston, c. 1710–16). English painter, active in the USA. Two of the finest portraits painted in New England during the early 18th century, The Rev. James Pierpont and Mrs James Pierpont (New Haven, CT, Yale U. A.G.), remain unattributed to a named artist. The Rev. Pierpont, a Congregationalist minister, helped to found the Collegiate School of Connecticut in 1701, which became Yale College in 1718. The pendant portraits of him and his third wife, Mary Hooker, are both dated 1711 and are rendered in the elegant, high style then practised in England by Sir Godfrey Kneller and his followers. A portrait of Caleb Heathcote (New York, NY Hist. Soc.), a wealthy Colonial leader, executed in a similarly painterly manner, has been attributed to the Pierpont Limner and probably dates from about 1711–13, when Heathcote was mayor of New York. Portraits of Edward Collins (c. 1716; Albany, NY, Inst. Hist. & A.) and of Edward Savage (c. 1711–15; priv. col.) are also included in recent discussions of the Pierpont Limner’s oeuvre. Pierpont family tradition maintains that the artist was English and painted in Boston between about 1710 and 1716.

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