Mrs. Augustus Van Horne Ellis (1859-1949)
Classification:
Highlight:
Not promoted
Date:
1897
Medium:
Watercolor on ivory
Dimensions:
Overall: 2 3/4 x 2 1/8 in. ( 7 x 5.4 cm )
Credit Line:
Bequest of Mrs. Augustus Van Horne Ellis
Object Number:
1950.286
Marks:
Inscribed: on back of case: "AME/1897"
Gallery Label:
Anne Middleton Hunter was the daughter of John Hunter of Hunter's Island, the Bronx, and Anne Manigault (Middleton) Hunter of Charleston, South Carolina. She married Augustus Van Horne Ellis on June 6, 1888. Mrs. Ellis was a member of The New-York Historical Society.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1897
eMuseum Object ID:
17344
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Mrs. Robert Maitland (1785-1864)
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1835
Medium:
Watercolor on ivory
Dimensions:
Overall: 3 7/8 x 3 1/8 in. ( 9.8 x 7.9 cm )
Credit Line:
Bequest of Waldron Phoenix Belknap, Jr.
Object Number:
1950.248
Marks:
Signed: at right:"Aimee Thibault"
Gallery Label:
Elizabeth Sproat Lenox was born in Newport, R.I. She became the second wife of Robert Maitland on September 22, 1814.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1835
eMuseum Object ID:
17343
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Lady of Lenox Family
Classification:
Date:
ca.1830
Medium:
Watercolor on ivory
Dimensions:
Overall: 3 7/8 x 3 1/4 in. ( 9.8 x 8.3 cm )
Credit Line:
Bequest of Waldron Phoenix Belknap, Jr.
Object Number:
1950.247
Marks:
Signed: at right:"Aimee Thibault'
Gallery Label:
Alethea Lenox (1807-1878) has been suggested as the subject of this miniature; the donor, however, had some doubt about this identification.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1830
eMuseum Object ID:
17342
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Mrs. Robert Maitland (1785-1864)
Classification:
Date:
ca.1830
Medium:
Watercolor on ivory
Dimensions:
Overall: 3 3/16 x 2 1/2 in. ( 8.1 x 6.4 cm )
Credit Line:
Bequest of Waldron Phoenix Belknap, Jr.
Object Number:
1950.246
Marks:
Signed: at right:"Aimee Thibault"
Gallery Label:
Elizabeth Sproat Lenox was born in Newport, R.I. She became the second wife of Robert Maitland on September 22, 1814.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1830
eMuseum Object ID:
17341
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Robert Lenox (1759-1839)
Classification:
Date:
ca.1835
Medium:
Watercolor on ivory
Dimensions:
Overall: 3 7/8 x 3 1/4 in. ( 9.8 x 8.3 cm )
Credit Line:
Bequest of Mr. Waldron Phoenix Belknap, Jr.
Object Number:
1950.243
Marks:
Signed: at right:"Aimee Thiibault"
Gallery Label:
The subject, the son of James and Elizabeth (Sproat) Lenox, was born in Kirkcudbright, Scotland, and came to America just prior to the Revolution. A prosperous merchant, he served as president of the New York Chamber of Commerce from 1826 to 1839. This miniature portrait of him was painted between 1834, when the artist arrived in New York from her native France, and 1839, the year of the subject's death.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1835
eMuseum Object ID:
17340
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Miss Louise Kriescher (d. 1950)
Classification:
Date:
ca.1910
Medium:
Watercolor on ivory
Dimensions:
Overall: 3 1/8 x 2 5/16 in. ( 7.9 x 5.9 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of Miss Louise Kreischer
Object Number:
1950.191
Marks:
signature: at right: "MWE"
Gallery Label:
The subject was the daughter of George and Clara (Hoff) Kreischer and the granddaughter of Balthaser Kreischer (1813-86), a prominent brick manufacturer of New York and Staten Island.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1910
eMuseum Object ID:
17339
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Madame de Tallier
Classification:
Medium:
Watercolor on ivory
Credit Line:
Bequest of Louise Kreischer
Object Number:
1950.190
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
0
eMuseum Object ID:
17338
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Grace Howard Potter (1869-1937)
Collections:
Classification:
Date:
1895
Medium:
Watercolor on ivory
Dimensions:
Overall: 2 3/8 in. ( 6 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of the Estate of Peter Marié
Object Number:
1905.202
Marks:
signed and dated: "Paillet/1895"
Gallery Label:
The subject was the third daughter of Howard and Mary Louisa (Brown) Potter. She lived in Sound Beach, Connecticut, and spent her summers in Whitefield, New Hampshire, where she died.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1895
eMuseum Object ID:
17313
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Bertha Howard Potter (ca. 1870-1933)
Collections:
Classification:
Date:
1895
Medium:
Watercolor on ivory
Dimensions:
diameter: 2 in. ( 5.1 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of the Estate of Peter Marié
Object Number:
1905.201
Marks:
signed and dated: "Paillet/1895"
Gallery Label:
The subject was the youngest daughter of Howard Potter (1826-97), a lawyer and banker, and Mary Louisa (Brown) Potter of New York. She married Robert Shaw Minturn (ca. 1864-1918) in Philadelphia in 1906.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1895
eMuseum Object ID:
17312
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Mrs. Allison Wright Post (d. 1961)
Collections:
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1900
Medium:
Watercolor on ivory
Dimensions:
Overall: 3 3/8 x 2 5/8 in. ( 8.6 x 6.7 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of the Estate of Peter Marié
Object Number:
1905.195
Marks:
engraved: on back of the case: "Mrs. Allison Wright Post, /nee Katherine [sic] B. Hoppin"
signed: lower right:"Weidner"
Gallery Label:
Catharine Beekman Hoppin was the daughter of William Warner Hoppin, Jr., a lawyer, and Catharine (Beekman) Hoppin. Her husband, the son of an architect, George B. Post, was a partner in a real estate firm in New York.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1900
eMuseum Object ID:
17311
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
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