Charles Alexander Clinton (1798-1861)
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1840
Medium:
Oil on ivory
Dimensions:
Overall: 4 3/8 x 3 5/8 in. ( 11.1 x 9.2 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of George Clinton Andrews
Object Number:
1970.68
Gallery Label:
The subject of this miniature was the second son of DeWitt Clinton and Maria (Franklin) Clinton. He served as private secretary to his father from about 1817 until the latter's death in 1828. Clinton remained as secretary to the governor pro tem for a short while, then relocated to New York City where he practiced law.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1840
eMuseum Object ID:
34056
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Token of friendship, with a woman, an anchor, and a ship
Classification:
Highlight:
Not promoted
Medium:
Watercolor on ivory in a metal case with a brooch pin
Dimensions:
Overall: 1 5/8 x 1 3/8 in. ( 4.1 x 3.5 cm )
Object Number:
1952.290
Marks:
Engraved: on back of case:"MW"
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
0
eMuseum Object ID:
33985
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Augustus Van Horne Stuyvesant, Sr. (1838-1918)
Classification:
Highlight:
Not promoted
Date:
1912
Medium:
Watercolor on ivory
Dimensions:
Overall: 4 3/8 x 3 1/4 in. ( 11.1 x 8.3 cm )
Credit Line:
Bequest of Augustus Van Horne Stuyvesant, Jr.
Object Number:
1953.293
Marks:
Signed: at the bottom:"Alyn Williams pinx/1912"
Engarved: on back of frame"A.W.S/from/A.V.H.S./ December, 1912"
Gallery Label:
The subject was the younger son of Gerard Stuyvesant and Susan Rivington (Van Horne) Stuyvesant. He attended Columbia College and was a member of the Union, Knickerbocker, Metropolitan, Tuxedo, Country, and New York Yacht clubs and of the St. Nicholas Society.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1912
eMuseum Object ID:
33981
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Mrs. Gerard De Peyster (1774-1815)
Classification:
Date:
1798
Medium:
Watercolor on ivory
Dimensions:
Overall: 2 1/2 x 2 in. ( 6.4 x 5.1 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of Waldron Phoenix Belknap, Jr.
Object Number:
1947.551
Gallery Label:
Margaret, the daughter of John and Elizabeth (Haring) De Peyster, was born and died in New York. Both Mrs. De Peyster and her husband were first cousins of Elizabeth De Peyster, the second wife of Charles Willson Peale.
Bibliography:
Sellers, Charles Coleman, Portraits and Miniatures by Charles Willson Peale, The Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. 42, Part I, Philadelphia: 1952, pp. 64-5, 270.
Belknap, Waldron Phoenix, Jr. The De Peyster Geneaology. Boston: Privately Printed, 1956, p. 94, fig. 28
Belknap, Waldron Phoenix, Jr. American Colonial Painting, materials for a history. Cambridge, Mass. Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1959, pp. 47-58, II-IV.
Catalogue of American Portraits in The New-York Historical Society, New Haven: Yale University Press, Vol. 1, 1974, pp. 204-5.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1798
eMuseum Object ID:
33973
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Mrs. William Leete Stone, Sr. (1798-1852)
Classification:
Highlight:
Not promoted
Date:
ca.1820
Medium:
Watercolor on ivory
Dimensions:
Overall: 3 5/16 x 2 5/8 in. ( 8.4 x 6.7 cm )
Credit Line:
Purchase
Object Number:
1949.37
Marks:
Inscribed: on back:"My Grandmother/Mrs. Wm. Leete Stone/on ivory, painted/by Rogers"
Gallery Label:
Susannah Pritchard Wayland was the daughter of the Rev. Francis and Sarah (Moore) Wayland of Saratoga Springs, New York. She was the sister of Francis Wayland (1796-1865) who became the president of Brown University. She married William Leete Stone, Sr., in 1817. This miniature was probably painted shortly after her marriage.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1820
eMuseum Object ID:
33877
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Isaac John Greenwood I (1795-1865)
Classification:
Date:
1838
Medium:
Watercolor on ivory
Dimensions:
Overall: 2 5/8 x 2 1/8 in. ( 6.7 x 5.4 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of Eliza R. and Mary M. Greenwood
Object Number:
1942.595
Marks:
Label: on the back:"Isaac John Greenwood/b. July 1795, d. May 14, 1865/ Painted by John A. McDougall/Jan. 1838 Ae 43. Given by Widow Mary McKay/Greenwood to her granddaughter Eliza R. Greenwood."
Gallery Label:
The subject was born in New York, the son of John and Elizabeth (Weaver) Greenwood. He turned to his father's profession, dentistry, in 1818, from which he retired in 1829, at the end of a distinguished career.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1838
eMuseum Object ID:
33793
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
John Ludlow Morton (1792-1871)
Classification:
Date:
1829
Medium:
Watercolor on ivory
Dimensions:
Overall: 3 1/4 x 2 11/16 in. ( 8.3 x 6.8 cm )
Description:
Credit Line:
Bequest of Mrs. Emily Ellison Post
Object Number:
1944.356
Marks:
Signed: on mat, lower right:"N.Rogers, 1829"
Gallery Label:
John Ludlow was the eldest son of General Jacob Morton and Catharine (Ludlow) Morton. He was a painter and very active in the affairs of the National Academy of Design. The miniature is attached to the back cover of Morton's sketchbook album of friends' drawings, hence the tentative identification of the subject. The donor is the subject's granddaughter.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1829
eMuseum Object ID:
33765
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Lewis Johnston Costigan (ca. 1743-1822)
Classification:
Highlight:
Not promoted
Date:
ca. 1790-1795
Medium:
Watercolor on ivory
Dimensions:
Overall: 2 7/8 x 2 3/8 in. ( 7.3 x 6 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of Harry H. Lloyd, in memory of Adele T. Dunsenbury Lloyd
Object Number:
1945.37
Marks:
inscription (in gold): on back of frame: "LJC"
Gallery Label:
Costigan (or Costigin) served as a first lieutenant in the First New Jersey Regiment of the Continental Army and later became a member of the New Jersey branch of the Society of Cincinnati. He is shown wearing the society's order in this portrait.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1795
eMuseum Object ID:
33760
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Unidentified woman with cat
Classification:
Date:
n.d.
Medium:
Graphite
Dimensions:
Overall: 5 7/16 x 4 1/16 in. ( 13.8 x 10.3 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of Mrs. J. Phillip Schmand
Object Number:
1944.290
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
0
eMuseum Object ID:
33725
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Samuel Woodworth (1785-1842)
Classification:
Medium:
Watercolor on ivory
Dimensions:
Overall: 2 3/4 x 2 1/4 in. ( 7 x 5.7 cm )
Credit Line:
Bequest of Randall J. LeBoeuf, Jr., 1976
Object Number:
1976.58
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
0
eMuseum Object ID:
33616
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
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