Boston 1775

Earlier in the month I reported on Fara Dabhoiwala’s work on the portrait of Francis Williams based on two news articles. I’ve now read P...

[Today’s posting would be simpler if so many of the people involved weren’t named Williams.] Yesterday I passed on articles about Fara Dab...

Last month Artnet and the Guardian reported on historian Fara Dabhoiwala’s findings about a painting I discussed in 2009 . The painting ...

This interview with Octavian Nothing author M. T. Anderson pointed me to these two webpages about Francis Williams (1697-1762), who held...