Mrs. Francis Egerton Webb
Collections:
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1900
Medium:
Watercolor on ivory
Dimensions:
Overall: 3 3/4 x 2 3/4 in. ( 9.5 x 7 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of the Estate of Peter Marié
Object Number:
1905.258
Marks:
signed: at right:"Weidner"
Gallery Label:
Mary Welsh Randolph (ca. 1870-1962) of Philadelphia was married to F. Egerton Webb, a New York banker, in 1890.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1900
eMuseum Object ID:
17409
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Mrs. John Hobart Warren (ca. 1855-1923)
Collections:
Classification:
Highlight:
Not promoted
Date:
1891
Medium:
Watercolor on ivory
Dimensions:
Overall: 2 5/8 x 2 1/8 in. ( 6.7 x 5.4 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of the Estate of Peter Marié
Object Number:
1905.256
Marks:
Signed and dated lower right: "PAILLET / 1891"
Gallery Label:
Harriette Mott Coulter, the daughter of Samuel Coulter, married John Hobart Warren (d. 1908), an iron manufacturer of Troy, New York, on November 16, 1874. Mr. and Mrs. Warren were art collectors; she left several 19th-century European paintings and two Flemish tapestries to the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1891
eMuseum Object ID:
17408
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Mrs. Eugene Van Rensselaer (1846-1923)
Collections:
Classification:
Date:
1895
Medium:
Watercolor on ivory
Dimensions:
diameter: 2 1/4 in. ( 5.7 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of the Estate of Peter Marié
Object Number:
1905.254
Marks:
signed: "Behenna"
Gallery Label:
Sally Pendleton was the daughter of Elisha Boyd and Lucinda (Tutt) Pendleton of Berkeley County, Va. On April 26, 1865, she was married to Eugene Van Rensselaer (1840-1925) in Baltimore. He was the youngest of eleven children of Stephen Van Rensselaer, tenth patroon and eighth lord of the manor.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1895
eMuseum Object ID:
17407
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Mrs. John Borland Thayer (1872-1944)
Collections:
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1895
Medium:
Watercolor on ivory
Dimensions:
Overall: 3 1/4 x 2 5/8 in. ( 8.3 x 6.7 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of the Estate of Peter Marié
Object Number:
1905.247
Marks:
signed: at left:"C. and F. Weidner"
Gallery Label:
Marian L. Morris of Philadelphia was married to John Borland Thayer in the early 1890s. Her husband, a vice-president and director of the Pennsylvania Railroad, was lost on the "Titanic," which struck an iceberg on April 14, 1912. Mrs. Thayer and her son, John, Jr., who were also aboard, were rescued.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1895
eMuseum Object ID:
17406
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Samuel E. Lyon
Classification:
Date:
ca.1830
Medium:
Watercolor on ivory
Dimensions:
Overall: 2 7/8 x 2 3/8 in. ( 7.3 x 6 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of Constance Ogden
Object Number:
1957.227
Gallery Label:
This portrait was a gift to the Society from the subject's granddaughter.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1830
eMuseum Object ID:
17402
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
The Reverend John Callaghan (1776/77-1800)
Classification:
Highlight:
Not promoted
Date:
1800
Medium:
Watercolor on ivory
Dimensions:
Overall: 2 3/4 x 2 1/4 in. ( 7 x 5.7 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of the Henry Dudley Family, through Fannie G. Dudley
Object Number:
1957.137
Marks:
inscription: on back: "Revd./ John Callaghan/dided April 14th 1800/in his 24th year/In/memory of whom, this/tribute of gratitude & esteem/is presented to the family of/Nicho W. Stuyvesant Esq/by his/afflicted mother."
Gallery Label:
The subject of this portrait was a protégé of Dr. Robert Smith, bishop of South Carolina, who ordained him deacon. Callaghan (or Callahan) preached occasionally at St. Mark's in the Bowery, and was offered the rectorship of the newly established parish in February 1800. He accepted and returned to South Carolina to be ordained to the priesthood. He was killed there in a carriage accident that April.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1800
eMuseum Object ID:
17401
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
George Henry Remsen (1768-1804)
Classification:
Date:
1790-1795
Medium:
Watercolor on ivory set in gold braclet
Dimensions:
Overall: 1 11/16 x 1 5/16 in. ( 4.3 x 3.3 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of Mrs. Edward Rutledge and daughters
Object Number:
1954.178
Gallery Label:
The subject was a member of one of New York's oldest families, long prominent in the history of Long Island and Brooklyn.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1795
eMuseum Object ID:
17399
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
John Langdon (1741-1819)
Classification:
Date:
ca.1795
Medium:
Watercolor on ivory
Dimensions:
Overall: 2 7/8 x 2 1/4 in. ( 7.3 x 5.7 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of Mr. Lewis Gouverneur Morris
Object Number:
1954.33
Gallery Label:
The subject, a native of Portsmouth, N.H., denounced English colonial policies during the years before the American Revolution and was a member of the Continental Congress (1775-76). After the Revolution he served as governor of his state in 1788, and again in 1805-09 and 1810-11. He was a United States senator from 1789 to 1801, and a member of the New Hampshire legislature from 1801 to 1805.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1795
eMuseum Object ID:
17396
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Joseph Kip
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1815-1820
Medium:
Watercolor on ivory
Dimensions:
Overall: 2 5/8 x 2 1/8 in. ( 6.7 x 5.4 cm )
Credit Line:
Purchase
Object Number:
1952.345
Gallery Label:
The subject belonged to an old New York family which gave its name to the Kip's Bay section of the city. He was an ancestor of Helen Burr Smith and Henrietta Roger Smith, from whom the Society acquired this portrait.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1820
eMuseum Object ID:
17395
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Mrs. Buna Newton (1866-1951)
Classification:
Date:
1900
Medium:
Watercolor on ivory
Dimensions:
diameter: 1 1/8 in. ( 2.9 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of Lulu Newton
Object Number:
1952.330
Marks:
Inscribed: in pencil on back:"J.Staples Rowe/ New York/1900"
monogram: on gold locket: "B N"
Gallery Label:
The subject's maiden name was Anna Elizabeth Bruckner. The miniature, a gift to the Society from her daughter, is in a gold locket which bears the initials "B N" on the cover, in reference to the subject's husband.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1900
eMuseum Object ID:
17394
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
















