Nehemiah Partridge (1683 - between 1729 and 1737)  

• Was an American painter.
• He is believed to be the same artist as those identified as the Schuyler Limner and the Aetatis Suae Limner.
• Partridge was almost certainly alive in 1729, the year of his father's death.
• He married sometime before 1732, his wife being Mary Halsey, granddaughter of mathematician James Halsey.
• He was dead by 1737, when his mother referred in her will to pieces of silver which she left to children of her "late son Nehemiah".
• Partridge's name was remembered after his death, but for many years it was believed that none of his paintings had survived.
• This changed with the discovery by art historian Mary Black, in the account book of Everett Wendell, of an agreement with Partridge dated May 13, 1718, to trade a horse for ten pounds and four portraits.
• As a result of this identification, over eighty portraits and one scriptural painting were assigned to Partridge's hand; nearly all are from the Albany area.
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