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Walter Minto
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Walter Minto

Colonial & Early National (1746-1820)

Portrait of Professor Walter Minto, who endowed a prize for the best dissertation on “the unlawfulness & impolicy of African slavery, & the best means of abolishing it in the United States, & of promoting the happiness of free negroes.”

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Donald Drew Egbert and Diane Martindell Lee, Princeton Portraits (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1947).

Format JPEG Item Type Still Image Original Format Oil on canvas Physical Dimensions 67.5 x 50.4 cm (26 9/16 x 19 13/16 in.)
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