Mrs. John Greenwood (1764-1831)
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1818
Medium:
Watercolor on ivory
Dimensions:
Overall: 2 3/4 x 2 1/4 in. ( 7 x 5.7 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of the Misses Eliza R. and Mary M. Greenwood
Object Number:
1942.593
Marks:
label: on back: "Mrs. Elizabeth (Weaver) Greenwood/wife of Dr. John Greenwood of N. York/Aged 54/Taken by Mr. Dickison[sic]/1818"
stamped: upper proper left corner of the famre back: "33"
Gallery Label:
Elizabeth, the daughter of William and Jane (Coesart) Weaver, was married to Dr. John Greenwood on March 22, 1788.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1818
eMuseum Object ID:
19580
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Mrs. John Lawrence (ca. 1735-1821)
Classification:
Date:
ca.1775
Medium:
Watercolor on ivory
Dimensions:
Overall: 1 3/8 x 1 1/4 in. ( 3.5 x 3.2 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of an Anonymous Donor
Object Number:
1948.41
Gallery Label:
Ann Burling was the daughter of Dr. John Burling of Flushing, Long Island. She was married to John Lawrence in 1755. They were Loyalists and during the Revolution they lived in their town house in New York.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1775
eMuseum Object ID:
19272
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
"Dancer with a Tambourine"
Classification:
Medium:
Oil paint on opaque white glass.
Dimensions:
Overall: 18 x 15 x 3 in. ( 45.7 x 38.1 x 7.6 cm )
Description:
Framed painting
Object Number:
1942.511
Marks:
Embossed plaque: "GYPSY LASS"
Provenance:
Gift of Mr. Henry W. Belknap
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
0
eMuseum Object ID:
19229
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
John Lawrence (1732-1794)
Classification:
Date:
1756
Medium:
Watercolor on ivory
Dimensions:
Overall: 1 1/4 x 1 in. ( 3.2 x 2.5 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of an Anonymous Donor
Object Number:
1948.40
Gallery Label:
The subject was the son of Richard and Hannah (Browne) Lawrence; his mother was a cousin of Governor John Winthrop of Massachusetts.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1756
eMuseum Object ID:
18970
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Simon Fraser
Classification:
Date:
19th century
Medium:
Watercolor on ivory
Dimensions:
Overall: 2 3/4 x 2 1/8 in. ( 7 x 5.4 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of Catherine R. B. Mackie
Object Number:
1947.440
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
0
eMuseum Object ID:
18857
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Miss Clinton
Classification:
Date:
19th century
Medium:
Watercolor on ivory
Dimensions:
Overall: 1 3/4 x 1 5/16 in. ( 4.4 x 3.3 cm )
Credit Line:
Bequest of Emily Burns, through Mrs. Joseph H. LeVau
Object Number:
1945.2
Gallery Label:
The subject of this miniature is traditionally believed to be a daughter of Governor DeWitt Clinton and Maria (Franklin) Clinton (1775-1818). It probably represents either Juliana (b. 1811), their seventh child, or Julia Catherine (1817-1839), their tenth and last child.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
0
eMuseum Object ID:
18804
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Harman Gerard Rutgers (1828-1841)
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1835-1840
Medium:
Watercolor on ivory
Dimensions:
Overall: 3 3/4 x 3 in. ( 9.5 x 7.6 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of Elizabeth Rutgers Baldwin and Margaret Bayard Baldwin
Object Number:
1942.319
Gallery Label:
Harman was the son of Anthony and Sarah Alexander (Johnson) Rutgers and the brother of Elizabeth Van Cortlandt Rutgers.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1840
eMuseum Object ID:
18723
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Colonel Nicholas Fish (1758-1833)
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1825-30
Medium:
Watercolor on ivory
Dimensions:
Overall: 4 x 3 1/2 in. ( 10.2 x 8.9 cm )
Description:
Subject is seated in half-length portrait, wearing the badge of the Society of the Cincinnati.
Credit Line:
Purchase, The Watson Fund
Object Number:
1978.3
Gallery Label:
Henry Inman exhibited this portrait at the National Academy of Design in 1829.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1825
eMuseum Object ID:
18507
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Mrs. Archibald Robertson (1776-1865)
Classification:
Date:
1794
Medium:
Watercolor on ivory
Dimensions:
Overall: 3 1/2 x 2 5/8 in. ( 8.9 x 6.7 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of Dr. John E. Stillwell
Object Number:
1929.32
Gallery Label:
Eliza Abramse was the daughter of Jacob and Rachel (Walker) Abramse. She married Archibald Robertson, a promising young artist recently arrived from Scotland, in 1794. She learned to paint in watercolors from her husband and became a rather talented amateur artist in her own right, exhibiting her work several times at the American Academy of Fine Arts.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1794
eMuseum Object ID:
18504
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Mrs. Edward Wharton (1862-1937)
Classification:
Date:
1890
Medium:
Watercolor on ivory
Dimensions:
Overall: 2 1/2 x 2 in. ( 6.4 x 5.1 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of the Estate of Peter Marié
Object Number:
1905.266
Marks:
signed and dated: at lower right: "1890 Paillet"
inscribed: on paper backing:" Mrs. Wharton/Paillet/23 Rue Clauzel/Paris"
Gallery Label:
Edith Newbold Jones was the daughter of George Frederic and Lucretia Stevens (Rhinelander) Jones. She married Edward Wharton of Boston in 1885. The novels of Edith Wharton are among the most highly regarded works of American fiction.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1890
eMuseum Object ID:
18444
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
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