Dutch Town Square
Classification:
Date:
1859
Medium:
Oil on panel
Dimensions:
Overall: 12 3/16 x 14 5/8 x 5/8 in. ( 31 x 37.1 x 1.6 cm )
Credit Line:
The Robert L. Stuart Collection, the gift of his widow Mrs. Mary Stuart
Object Number:
S-25
Marks:
inscriptions: Signed, dated lower right: W. Koekkoek-59.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1859
eMuseum Object ID:
20942
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Unidentified Gentleman
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1810
Medium:
oil on wood panel
Dimensions:
Overall: 8 7/8 x 6 7/8 in. ( 22.5 x 17.5 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of John Ward Dunsmore
Object Number:
1937.1635
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1810
eMuseum Object ID:
20896
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Engagement between the U.S. Frigate Constitution and H.M.S. Java
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Classification:
Highlight:
Not promoted
Date:
1897
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 24 × 36 in. (61 × 91.4 cm)
Framed: 36 3/4 × 49 × 4 3/4 in. (93.3 × 124.5 × 12.1 cm)
Description:
Marine view depicts the termination of the engagement, with the Java completely dismasted; Java on the right; Constitution on the far left; lefboat with crew members of the Java in foregroud on the right; another lifeboat is located in back of the Java; smoke burned from the burned wreck fills the air.
Credit Line:
The Naval History Society Collection (John Sanford Barnes Foundation)
Object Number:
1925.115
Marks:
Signed and dated lower left: Carlton T. Chapman / 1897
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1897
eMuseum Object ID:
20891
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Teniers Sketching Peasants
Classification:
Date:
1842?
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 22 1/8 x 19 3/8 x 3/4 in. ( 56.2 x 49.2 x 1.9 cm )
Credit Line:
The Robert L. Stuart Collection, the gift of his widow Mrs. Mary Stuart
Object Number:
S-39
Marks:
inscriptions: Signed dated right center: J. Vokersdyk 1842 (?)
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1842
eMuseum Object ID:
20877
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
The Reverend Robert Bolton (1788-1857)
Classification:
Date:
1818
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 50 3/4 x 41 1/4 in. ( 128.9 x 104.8 cm )
Credit Line:
Bequest of Reginald Pelham Bolton
Object Number:
1942.349
Marks:
label: on back: "Miss Adele Bolton"
Gallery Label:
Robert Bolton was the eldest son of Robert Bolton and Sarah (McClean) Jackson Bolton of Savannah, Georgia. He went to England in 1807 and married there; in 1836 he left England and brought his wife and fourteen children to New York.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1818
eMuseum Object ID:
20856
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
White Mountain Scenery, Franconia Notch, N.H.
Collections:
Classification:
Highlight:
Not promoted
Date:
1857
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 48 1/4 x 72 1/2 in. ( 122.6 x 184.2 cm )
Frame: 62 1/2 x 86 1/2 x 5 in. ( 158.8 x 219.7 x 12.7 cm )
Credit Line:
The Robert L. Stuart Collection, the gift of his widow Mrs. Mary Stuart
Object Number:
S-105
Gallery Label:
Durand's small study of Franconia, also in the Stuart Collection (Stuart 211) at the NYHS, served as a model for parts of this composition.
Bibliography:
Clement, Clara Erskine, and Hutton, Laurence, Artists of the Nineteenth Century and their Works: A Handbook Containing Two Thousand and Fifty Biographical Sketches, Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1880, Vol. I, p. 227.
Huntington, Daniel, Asher B. Durand: A Memorial Address, New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1887, pp. 34, 39.
Catalogue of Paintings in the Picture Galleries, New York: The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations, 1912, p. 23.
Catalogue of Paintings in the Picture Galleries, New York: The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations, 1929, p. 27.
Catalogue of Paintings in the Picture Galleries, New York: The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations, 1941, p. 22.
Richardson, Edgar P., American Romantic Painting, New York: E. Weyhe, 1944, pp. 13, 31.
Lawall, David B., Asher Brown Durand: His Art and Art Theory in Relation to his Times, Submitted to Princeton University in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy, March 1966, pp. 169-70, 266, 379-80, 411-2, 487-8, 557-8, 664, 667.
Lawall, David B., Asher B. Durand: A Documentary Catalogue of the Narrative and Landscape Paintings, New York & London, Garland Publishing, Inc., 1978, pp. 117-9.
Koke, Richard J., American Landscape and Genre Paintings in the New York Historical Society, Vol. I, New York: The New-York Historical Society, 1982, p. 345.
Campbell, Catherine H., New Hampshire Scenery: a Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century Artists of New Hampshire Mountain Landscapes, Canaan, New Hampshire: Phoenix Publishing, 1985, p 53.
Voorsanger, Catherine Hoover, and Howat, John K., Art and the Empire City New York, 1825-1861, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2000, pp. 100-2.
Foshay, Ella M., and Novak, Barbara, Intimate Friends: Thomas Cole, Asher B. Durand, William Cullen Bryant, New York: The New-York Historical Society, 2000, pp. 30-1, 34-5, 56.
McGrath, Robert L., Gods in Granite: The Art of the White Mountains of New Hampshire, Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2001, pp. 116-120.
Vedder, Lee A., "Heeding the Call of Nature: Asher Brown Durand's Communion with the American Landscape," The New-York Journal of American History, New York: New-York Historical Society, Vol. LXV, No. 4, Fall 2004, pp. 38-9, 46-7.
Leggio, Gail, "Nature's Presence: Asher B. Durand and American Landscape," American Arts Quarterly, Spring 2007, pp. 10-3, 16-8.
Ferber, Linda S., ed., Kindred Spirits Asher B. Durand and the American Landscape, Brooklyn Museum, 2007, pp. 188-9, 203.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1857
eMuseum Object ID:
20844
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
John N. Mitchell, U.S. Attorney General
Classification:
Highlight:
Not promoted
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 38 x 24 1/2 in. ( 96.5 x 62.2 cm )
Object Number:
X.702
Marks:
inscriptions: Signed lower left: "ROBERT/WILLIAM/ BROWN"; verso inscrition: "U.S. Attorney General/John N. Mitchell".
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
0
eMuseum Object ID:
20842
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Thetis Bringing the Armor to Achilles
Classification:
Date:
1805
Medium:
Oil on paper, laid on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 17 3/4 x 14 in. ( 45.1 x 35.6 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of Thomas Jefferson Bryan
Object Number:
1867.292
Inscriptions:
Signed and inscribed at lower left in : "B. West 1805[?]
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1805
eMuseum Object ID:
20839
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
J. W. Forbes
Classification:
Medium:
oil on linen
Dimensions:
Overall: 31 x 26 x 2 in. ( 78.7 x 66 x 5.1 cm )
Object Number:
1975.17
Gallery Label:
Portrait of John W. Forbes (baptized in 1781).
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
0
eMuseum Object ID:
20838
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Castle on the Rhine
Classification:
Date:
1849
Medium:
Oil on wood panel
Dimensions:
Overall: 8 1/2 x 11 11/16 x 1/4 in. ( 21.6 x 29.7 x 0.6 cm )
Credit Line:
The Robert L. Stuart Collection, the gift of his widow Mrs. Mary Stuart
Object Number:
S-54
Marks:
inscriptions: Signed lower right ?
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1849
eMuseum Object ID:
20787
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
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