Caligula
Classification:
Medium:
oil on wood panel
Dimensions:
Overall: 26 x 20 x 1 in. ( 66 x 50.8 x 2.5 cm )
Object Number:
1953.47
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
0
eMuseum Object ID:
18540
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Mrs. George Washington (1731-1802)
Classification:
Date:
1835
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
frame: 36 x 31 3/4 x 4 1/4 in. ( 91.4 x 80.6 x 10.8 cm )
image: 26 1/4 x 21 1/2 in. ( 66.7 x 54.6 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of The New-York Gallery of the Fine Arts
Object Number:
1858.38
Gallery Label:
In 1749 Martha Dandridge married Daniel Parke Custis; he died eight years later leaving her one of the largest fortunes and estates in Virginia. In 1759 she married George Washington and moved to Mount Vernon. Stuart's original portrait of Mrs. Washington was painted in Philadelphia in 1795; Stuart's unfinished portrait of George Washingtion and his portrait of Mrs. Washington were both in the collection of the Boston Athenaeum when Durand copied them in 1835.
Provenance:
Luman Reed, d. 1836; Mrs. Luman Reed, New York, 1836-44; New-York Gallery of the Fine Arts, 1844-58.
Bibliography:
Catalogue: Descriptive, Biographical, and Historical of the Exhibition of Select Paintings, by Modern Artists, Principally American, and Living, Under the Direction of a Committee of Amateurs, the Paintings Borrowed for this Particular Purpose from Friends to the Arts at the Stuyvesant Institute, Open until the Fifth of January, 1839, New York: G. P. Scott, 1838, p. 10.
Tuckerman, Henry T., Book of the Artists, American Artist Life, Comprising Biographical and Critical Sketches of American Artists: Preceded by an Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of Art in America, New York: P. Putnam & Son, 1867, p. 621.
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. 63, 140, 149-52, 159-62, 192-4, 610, 614, 616, 620.
Catalogue of American Portraits in The New-York Historical Society, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1974, Vol. 2, p. 866.
Foshay, Ella M., Luman Reed's Picture Gallery: Pioneer Collection of American Art, New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1990, pp. 19, 30-1, 46-8, 61-2, 84, 141-5, 200, 204-5, 209.
Lyons, Maura, William Dunlap and the Construction of an American Art History, Amherst & Boston: University of Massachusetts Press, 2005, pp. 157-8.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1835
eMuseum Object ID:
18539
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Jane Smith (1817-1918)
Classification:
Date:
1835
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 11 1/4 x 9 1/4 in. ( 28.6 x 23.5 cm )
Credit Line:
Bequest of Irving S. Olds
Object Number:
1963.105
Gallery Label:
The subject was the daughter of Samuel Smith and Rachel (Yaple) Smith. Her first husband was George H. Sands (1792-1849). On August 30, 1852, she was married to Chauncey Keator (1814-83), a merchant of Margaretville, New York. Her portrait was a gift to the Society from her grandson.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1835
eMuseum Object ID:
18494
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Steamboat "Reindeer"
Classification:
Date:
1850
Medium:
Oil on canvas (relined)
Dimensions:
frame: 38 x 61 in. ( 96.5 x 154.9 cm )
Overall: 32 x 54 1/2 in. ( 81.3 x 138.4 cm )
Credit Line:
Purchase
Object Number:
1942.249
Marks:
signed: lower right: "Picture Drawn & Painted by James Bard, N.Y.,/686 Washington St."
inscription: lower left: "Built by Thomas Collyer, N.Y., 1850/Engine Built at the Morgan Works, N.Y., 18[50]"
inscription: lower right: "Joiner Work by J. &. F. E. Br
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1850
eMuseum Object ID:
18489
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Washerwomen
Classification:
Medium:
oil on wood panel
Dimensions:
Overall: 22 x 28 x 1 in. ( 55.9 x 71.1 x 2.5 cm )
Credit Line:
The Durr Collection
Object Number:
1882.101
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
0
eMuseum Object ID:
18459
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
The Upper Lake, Central Park, NYC
Classification:
Date:
1871
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 12 1/4 x 20 1/4 in. ( 31.1 x 51.4 cm )
frame: 16 x 24 in. ( 40.6 x 61 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of George A. Zabriskie
Object Number:
1947.347
Marks:
signature and date: lower left, obverse
Gallery Label:
In 1884, Miller rendered this same view in watercolor, which is also in the Society's collection (1948.169).
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1871
eMuseum Object ID:
18442
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Samuel Dyer Tillman (1815-1875)
Classification:
Date:
1876
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 36 x 29 in. ( 91.4 x 73.7 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of the American Institute of the City of New York
Object Number:
1929.21
Marks:
signature and date: upper left: "T. Hicks. 1876"
Gallery Label:
Tillman was a lawyer and scientist born in Utica, New York. This portrait was painted for the American Institute the year following his death.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1876
eMuseum Object ID:
18437
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
John Bolton (1726-1784)
Classification:
Date:
1759
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 30 x 25 in. ( 76.2 x 63.5 cm )
Credit Line:
Bequest of Reginald Pelham Bolton
Object Number:
1942.352
Marks:
inscription: on back: "John Bolton, 2d son of Robt ne 20 June 1726 ob 2 Mar 1784 / J. Hesselius Pinx 1759, Commissary of Kent Co. Md."
Gallery Label:
John Bolton was the third son of Robert Bolton, merchant of Philadelphia, and Ann (Curtis) Clay Bolton. He settled in Chestertown, Maryland, and married Eleanor Dougherty in 1771.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1759
eMuseum Object ID:
18420
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
View of the Narrows from Fort Hamilton Showing Fort Lafayett
Classification:
Highlight:
Not promoted
Medium:
oil on linen
Dimensions:
Overall: 25 x 30 x 1 in. ( 63.5 x 76.2 x 2.5 cm )
Object Number:
1960.40
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
0
eMuseum Object ID:
18389
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Anton von Winterthur Graff (1736-1813)
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1764-65
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 36 x 30 in. ( 91.4 x 76.2 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of Thomas Jefferson Bryan
Object Number:
1867.285
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1764
eMuseum Object ID:
18379
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
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