Great-Grand-Father's Tale of the Revolution—A Portrait of Reverend Zachariah Greene — William Sidney Mount. Great-Grand-Father's Tale of the Revolution—A Portrait of Reverend Zachariah Greene, 1852. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Public domain (CC0).

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Great-Grand-Father's Tale of the Revolution—A Portrait of Reverend Zachariah Greene

by William Sidney Mount

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Artist: William Sidney Mount (American, Setauket, New York 1807–1868 Setauket, New York)
Date: 1852
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 24 x 20 in. (61 x 50.8 cm)
Type: Painting
Classification: Painting
Department: The American Wing
Credit line: Purchase, Morris K. Jesup and Maria DeWitt Jesup Funds, Gift of George I. Seney and Bequest of Vera Ruth Miller, by exchange; and Gift of Anita Pohndorff Yates, in memory of her father, F. G. Pohndorff, 1984
Accession no.: 1984.192

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Data retrieved from the Metropolitan Museum of Art on October 9, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.

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