Unidentified man
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1780
Medium:
Oil on wood panel
Dimensions:
Overall: 6 1/8 x 5 1/4 in. ( 15.6 x 13.3 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of Eliza R. and Mary M. Greenwood
Object Number:
1942.592
Marks:
label: on back: "Vergennes / by / Trumbull / by repute"
Gallery Label:
An identification of the subject as the French dramatist Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais (1732-99) has been proposed, but not substantiated. An alternative identification is Charles Gravier, Comte de Vergennes (1717-87), the French statesman and foreign minister who supported the American revolution against British sovereignty.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1780
eMuseum Object ID:
17179
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Woodland Creek in Moonlight
Classification:
Date:
1883
Medium:
Oil on artboard
Dimensions:
Overall: 9 1/8 x 7 3/8 in. ( 23.2 x 18.7 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of Mr. R. Reid Coleman
Object Number:
1948.50
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1883
eMuseum Object ID:
17161
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Mrs. Edmund Astley Prentis, Sr.
Classification:
Date:
1896
Medium:
paint on wood
Dimensions:
Overall: 20 x 28 x 4 in. ( 50.8 x 71.1 x 10.2 cm )
Object Number:
INV.14346
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1896
eMuseum Object ID:
17155
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Bishop Benjamin T. Onderdonk (1791-1861)
Classification:
Highlight:
Not promoted
Date:
ca. 1830-1833
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 34 x 27 in. ( 86.4 x 68.6 cm )
Credit Line:
Bequest of Henry Selden Weller
Object Number:
1953.71
Gallery Label:
A native of New York, Onderdonk graduated from Columbia College in 1809, went on to study theology, and was ordained a priest in 1815. He served at Trinity Church in New York, the spire of which is visible in this painting. The Society owns many of his papers.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1833
eMuseum Object ID:
17153
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
View of Dungan Manor House, Staten Island
Classification:
Highlight:
Not promoted
Date:
1876
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 13 x 19 in. ( 33 x 48.3 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of Joseph T. Williamson
Object Number:
1905.298
Gallery Label:
The donor of the painting was of the family who owned the house in its later years.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1876
eMuseum Object ID:
17146
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Chapel Pond Brook, Keene Flats, Adirondack Mountains, New York
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Collections:
Classification:
Highlight:
Not promoted
Date:
1871
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 28 x 31 in. ( 71.1 x 78.7 cm )
frame: 39 1/4 x 44 1/2 x 4 1/2 in. ( 99.7 x 113 x 11.4 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of Mrs. Lucy Maria Durand Woodman
Object Number:
1907.4
Marks:
inscriptions: signed and dated, lower left: A.B. Durand / 1871
Gallery Label:
Part of the composition of this study were derived from Durand's Chapel Pond Brook painting of 1870, also owned by the Society.
Bibliography:
Executor's Sale, Studies in Oil by Asher B. Durand, N.A., Deceased, Ortgies' Art Gallery, New York, April 13 and 14, 1887, p. 25, no. 339.
Catalogue of the Gallery of Art of The New York Historical Society, New York: Printed for the Society, 1915, p. 43.
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. 189-90, 362-7, 663-4.
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. 802.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1871
eMuseum Object ID:
17142
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Charles Willson Peale (1741-1827)
Classification:
Date:
1767-1769
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
canvas: 28 1/4 x 23 in. ( 71.8 x 58.4 cm )
frame: 33 1/2 x 41 1/2 x 3 1/2 in. ( 85.1 x 105.4 x 8.9 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of Thomas Jefferson Bryan
Object Number:
1867.293
Gallery Label:
Charles Willson Peale established himself in the late eighteenth century as one of America's foremost portrait painters, having spent two years abroad in the late 1760s studying his craft in London under the tutelage of the American-born artist, Benjamin West. It was during this period of study that West honored his student by painting this portrait. A man of great energy and encyclopedic interests, Peale gained even greater fame in the 1780s for establishing Peale's Museum in Philadelphia, America's first systematically and scientifically arranged museum of art and natural history. When the museum closed in 1854 and its painting collection was put up for sale, Thomas Jefferson Bryan purchased this and a number of other portraits that the artist and his son, Rembrandt Peale, had painted for the museum's renowned Gallery of Great Men devoted to heroes of the American Revolution and the new republic.
Bibliography:
Caffin, Charles H., The Story of American Painting: The Evolution of Painting in America from Colonial Times to the Present, New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1907, p. 13.
Morgan, John Hill, Early American Painters: Illustrated by Examples in the Collection of The New-York Historical Society, New York: New-York Historical Society, 1921, pp. 68-9.
Catalogue of American Portraits in The New-York Historical Society, New Haven: Yale University Press, Vol. II, 1974, p. 609.
Holland, Eugenia Calvert, Four Generations of Commissions: the Peale Collection of the Maryland Historical Society, Baltimore: Maryland Historical Society, 1975, p. 3.
Evans, Dorinda, Benjamin West and His American Students, Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1980, pp. 37-48.
Richardson, Edgar P., Hindle, Brooke, and Miller, Lillian B., Charles Wilson Peale and His World, New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1983, p. 35.
Miller, Lillian B. and Ward, David C., Eds., New Perspectives on Charles Wilson Peale: A 250th Anniversary Celebration, Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh Press, 1991, book jacket.
Ward, David C., Charles Wilson Peale: Art and Selfhood in the Early Republic, Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004, frontispiece, pp. 30-3.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1769
eMuseum Object ID:
17124
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
The Fortunate Escape of King William III
Classification:
Highlight:
Not promoted
Medium:
Oil on linen
Dimensions:
Overall: 27 x 21 3/4 in. ( 68.6 x 55.2 cm )
Credit Line:
Bequest of Catherine Augusta DePeyster
Object Number:
1911.18
Marks:
stenciled: on back of canvas: "PREPARED BY / EDWD DE CHAUX / NEW YORK"
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
0
eMuseum Object ID:
17100
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Spaniel and Terrier
Classification:
Date:
1859
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 25 x 30 in. ( 63.5 x 76.2 cm )
Credit Line:
The Robert L. Stuart Collection, the gift of his widow Mrs. Mary Stuart
Object Number:
S-161
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1859
eMuseum Object ID:
17095
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Capture of the American Schooner "Gypsy" by HMS Hermes, 1812
Classification:
Highlight:
Not promoted
Date:
1812
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 21 x 30 in. ( 53.3 x 76.2 cm )
Credit Line:
Bequest of Irving S. Olds
Object Number:
1963.60
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1812
eMuseum Object ID:
17074
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
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