Hackensack Meadows, Sunset
Collections:
Classification:
Date:
1859
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall (canvas): 18 1/4 x 26 in. (46.4 x 66 cm)
Frame: 27 1/2 x 35 1/2 x 3 in. ( 69.8 x 90.2 x 7.6 cm )
Credit Line:
The Robert L. Stuart Collection, the gift of his widow Mrs. Mary Stuart
Object Number:
S-22
Marks:
signature and date (obverse, BL corner, Painted): G INNESS 1859
Note: lettered in script
Inscriber: Artist
label (obverse inner frame edge, BR corner, Printed): 47
Description: adhesive label printed with number 47
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1859
eMuseum Object ID:
18263
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
The Narrows and Fort Lafayette, Ships Coming Into Port, New York Harbor
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Classification:
Highlight:
Not promoted
Date:
1868
Medium:
Oil on canvas (relined)
Dimensions:
canvas: 30 x 60 in. ( 76.2 x 152.4 cm )
Frame: 35 3/4 x 65 3/4 x 3 1/2 in. (90.8 x 167 x 8.9 cm)
Credit Line:
Purchase, The Watson Fund
Object Number:
1976.2
Marks:
Signed lower left: Sam. Colman.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1868
eMuseum Object ID:
18204
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Surrender of New Amsterdam to the English, 1664
Classification:
Highlight:
Not promoted
Date:
1938
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 83 x 72 in. ( 210.8 x 182.9 cm )
Credit Line:
Purchase, General Fund
Object Number:
1938.400
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1938
eMuseum Object ID:
18194
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Law Sakes Alive! What Are You Doing, Baby
Classification:
Highlight:
Not promoted
Date:
ca. 1872
Medium:
Oil on linen
Dimensions:
Overall: 44 3/4 x 58 3/4 in. ( 113.7 x 149.2 cm )
Credit Line:
Purchase, Thomas Jefferson Bryan Fund
Object Number:
1985.22
Marks:
inscriptions: lower right: C. C. Markham/Brooklyn/N.Y.
Bibliography:
Art What Thou Eat: Images of Food in American Art
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1872
eMuseum Object ID:
18180
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Floral Still Life
Classification:
Date:
19th century
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 31 7/8 x 46 x 3/4 in. ( 81 x 116.8 x 1.9 cm )
Credit Line:
The Robert L. Stuart Collection, the gift of his widow Mrs. Mary Stuart
Object Number:
S-21
Marks:
inscriptions: Signed upper right: M. Munkacsy
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
0
eMuseum Object ID:
18179
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Oliver Hazard Perry (1785-1819)
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1813-1814
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 28 1/2 x 23 1/2 in. ( 72.4 x 59.7 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of Thomas Jefferson Bryan
Object Number:
1867.312
Gallery Label:
This portrait of Oliver Hazard Perry, hero of the War of 1812, was exhibited in the Peale Museum in Philadelphia. At the sale of 1854 it was purchased by Thomas J. Bryan, who gave it to the Society thirteen years later.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1814
eMuseum Object ID:
18177
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Pieter Johan van Berckel (1725-1800)
Classification:
Date:
1783-84
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 23 1/4 x 19 1/2 in. ( 59.1 x 49.5 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of Thomas Jefferson Bryan
Object Number:
1867.301
Gallery Label:
In 1782 Peale started his gallery of portraits of eminent persons in Philadelphia which four years later became the Peale Museum. This portrait of the Dutch minister Pieter Johan van Berckel was one of the first to hang in the gallery, for it appears in the list of portraits as early as 1784. It remained in that distinguished collection until the sale of the Peale Museum effects in 1854 when it was purchased by Thomas J. Bryan.
Bibliography:
Sellers, Charles Coleman, Portraits and Miniatures by Charles Willson Peale, The Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. 42, Part I, Philadelphia: 1952, p. 214.
Catalogue of American Portraits in The New-York Historical Society, New Haven: Yale University Press, Vol. 1, 1974, p. 817.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1783
eMuseum Object ID:
18175
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Roman Head
Classification:
Date:
1840
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
image size: 24 1/8 x 19 3/8 in. (61.3 x 49.2 cm)
Frame: 33 x 28 x 4 1/2 in. (83.8 x 71.1 x 11.4 cm)
Credit Line:
Gift of Nora Durand Woodman
Object Number:
1931.7
Gallery Label:
This painting along with Durand's other "Head of a Roman" paintings were exhibited at the National Academy in 1842. This is one of eight studies of elderly Roman men painted by Durand in 1840-41, of which the society owns four.
Bibliography:
Catalogue of the Gallery of Art of The New York Historical Society, New York: Printed for the Society, 1915, p. 313.
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. 159-62, 215, 445 616-7, 671.
Caldwell, John S., Asher B. Durand's Travels in Europe, 1840-1841 and their Role in his Artistic Development, Submitted to Hunter College in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts, 1973, pp. 42-3.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1840
eMuseum Object ID:
18174
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
George Andrew Hoffman (1813-1894)
Classification:
Date:
1840
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 36 x 28 in. ( 91.4 x 71.1 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of Mabel Hoffman Brainard
Object Number:
1943.229
Marks:
inscription: on back: "George Hoffman / Born March 9, 1813 / Edinburgh, Scotland / Died Feb. 8, 1894. / Painted 1840 by / Wm. R. Hamilton"
Gallery Label:
This portrait was a gift to the Society from the subject's granddaughter.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1840
eMuseum Object ID:
18163
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
John Quincy Adams (1767-1848)
Classification:
Date:
1843
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 30 1/4 x 25 1/4 in. ( 76.8 x 64.1 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of Edward D. Marchant
Object Number:
1844.2
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1843
eMuseum Object ID:
18147
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
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