Mrs. Jacob Lorillard
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1835
Medium:
Oil on wood panel
Dimensions:
Overall: 35 x 27 3/4 in. ( 88.9 x 70.5 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of H. Schuyler Cammann
Object Number:
1945.446
Gallery Label:
Anna Margaretta Kunze was the daughter of the Rev. John Christopher Kunze and Margaretta (Muhlenberg) Kunze. She married Jacob Lorillard on January 12, 1809. Her portrait was a gift to the Society from her great-grandson.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1835
eMuseum Object ID:
19271
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Peter Augustus Jay (1776-1843)
Classification:
Date:
n.d.
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 33 x 28 in. ( 83.8 x 71.1 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of Mrs. Matthew Clarkson
Object Number:
1905.291
Gallery Label:
This portrait, a gift to the Society from the subject's daughter, was copied from an original of ca. 1833 by Asher B. Durand. The original portrait is owned by the New York Hospital, of which the subject was president from 1827 to 1833.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
0
eMuseum Object ID:
19253
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Artist's Brook, Conway Meadows
Classification:
Date:
1881
Medium:
oil on linen
Dimensions:
Overall: 22 x 17 x 1 in. ( 55.9 x 43.2 x 2.5 cm )
Object Number:
1983.17
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1881
eMuseum Object ID:
19238
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
George Washington (1732-1799)
Classification:
Date:
Early 19th century
Medium:
Oil on glass
Dimensions:
Overall: 14 x 10 in. ( 35.6 x 25.4 cm )
Description:
Portrait in black suit, pink curtain, olive green background, gold pineapple motif on black
Credit Line:
Gift of Mrs. J. Insley Blair
Object Number:
1941.625
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
0
eMuseum Object ID:
19226
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Aaron Betts Belknap (1816-1880)
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1842
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 30 x 25 in. ( 76.2 x 63.5 cm )
Credit Line:
Bequest of Waldron Phoenix Belknap, Jr.
Object Number:
1950.235
Bibliography:
Phillips, John Marshall, Parker, Barbara N., Buhler, Kathryn C., eds., The Waldron Phoenix Belknap, Jr. Collection of Portraits and Silver with a Note on the Discoveries of Waldron Phoenix Belknap, Jr. Concerning the Influence of the English Mezzotint on Colonial Painting, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1955, pp. 58-9.
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, p. 84.
The Waldron Phoenix Belknap, Jr. Collection: [an exhibit of portraits, miniatures, landscapes, silver and miscellanea, March 28, 1973, at the New-York Historical Society}, New York, 1973.
Catalogue of American Portraits in The New-York Historical Society, New Haven: Yale University Press, Vol. 1, 1974, p. 66.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1842
eMuseum Object ID:
19220
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Castle Garden
Collections:
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1850
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 27 x 40 1/4 in. ( 68.6 x 102.2 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of Lucius Wilmerding
Object Number:
1936.464
Marks:
inscriptions: In ink on back of canvas: A. C. Wimerding/New York/NY
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1850
eMuseum Object ID:
19219
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
James Brander Matthews (1852-1929)
Classification:
Date:
1926
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 40 x 30 in. ( 101.6 x 76.2 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of the artist
Object Number:
1944.13
Marks:
signature and date: lower right: "Helen M. Turner / N.Y. 26"
Gallery Label:
Matthews was born in New Orleans and educated at Columbia College and Columbia Law School in New York. An educator and author, he was the first professor of dramatic literature at Columbia University from 1900 to 1924.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1926
eMuseum Object ID:
19217
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Mrs. Thomas Walley Langdon (1789-1861)
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1830-1835
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 29 3/4 x 21 in. ( 75.6 x 53.3 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of Eliza R. and Mary M. Greenwood
Object Number:
1942.590
Gallery Label:
Jane Weaver Greenwood was the daughter of Dr. John and Elizabeth (Weaver) Greenwood of New York. She was married in 1809 to David Mills Ross, a lawyer of New York, and in 1833 to Thomas Walley Langdon, a merchant of Boston. Her portrait was a gift to the Society from her grandnieces.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1835
eMuseum Object ID:
19216
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Benjamin Bailey (ca. 1775-1832)
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1815
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 36 x 28 in. ( 91.4 x 71.1 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of Eloise P. Luquer and Colonel Thatcher T.P.Luquer
Object Number:
1942.478
Gallery Label:
The subject is first lested in the New York City Directory in 1794 and in 1795 is listed as a merchant. For many years he maintained his business on Front Street and his residence on Chambers Street. In 1825 he married as his third wife Anna Elizabeth Cottrell, who survived him.
Bibliography:
Bolton, Theodore, and Groce, George C., Jr., "John Wesley Jarvis: An Account of His Life and the First Catalogue of His Work, Art Quarterly, Vol. 1, No. 4, Autumn 1938, pp. 299-321.
"The Gallery of Art," Annual Report and List of Members of The New-York Historical Society for the Year 1942, New York, The New-York Historical Society, 1943, pp. 31-4.
Dickson, Harold E., John Wesley Jarvis: American Painter, 1780-1840, New York: The New-York Historical Society, 1949, pp. 344, 422.
Catalogue of American Portraits in The New-York Historical Society, Vol. 2, New York: The New-York Historical Society, 1974, pp. 34-5.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1815
eMuseum Object ID:
19215
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
James Abram Garfield (1831-1881)
Classification:
Date:
1942
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 30 x 25 in. ( 76.2 x 63.5 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of George A. Zabriskie
Object Number:
1942.355
Marks:
signature: upper right: "Rittenberg"
Gallery Label:
This is one of several portraits of presidents which Rittenberg painted between 1942 and 1945 for the series of presidential portraits owned by the Society.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1942
eMuseum Object ID:
19214
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
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