Samuel Adams
Classification:
Date:
1770-1772
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 36 x 29 in. ( 91.4 x 73.7 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of Edward Van Zandt Lane
Object Number:
1945.85
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1772
eMuseum Object ID:
12937
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Mrs. Aaron Belknap (1771-1862)
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1842
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 30 x 24 3/4 in. ( 76.2 x 62.9 cm )
Credit Line:
Bequest of Waldron Phoenix Belknap, Jr.
Object Number:
1950.234
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. 56-7.
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. 65.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1842
eMuseum Object ID:
12821
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Landscape
Classification:
Date:
n.d.
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 12 x 18 1/4 in. ( 30.5 x 46.4 cm )
Credit Line:
The Robert L. Stuart Collection, the gift of his widow Mrs. Mary Stuart
Object Number:
S-51
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
0
eMuseum Object ID:
12747
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Foot of Cortlandt Street, N.Y.C.
Classification:
Date:
1818-1829
Medium:
Oil on panel
Dimensions:
canvas: 13 3/4 x 19 in. ( 34.9 x 48.3 cm )
frame: 17 5/8 x 22 1/2 x 2 5/8 in. ( 44.8 x 57.2 x 6.7 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of the members of the Board of Trustees
Object Number:
1948.576
Gallery Label:
The work of this artist is similar to Yenny Yenni (or Johann Heinrich Jenny) to which it was previously attributed. In this view one of the coaches of the Albany and New York Line established December 28, 1818 may be seen, and at the center of the painting, the Northern Hotel, which was listed in the City Directory for 1819 at 79 Cortlandt Street. Also shown is a ferry of the New York and Jersey Steamboat Ferry Company.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1829
eMuseum Object ID:
12707
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
The Aquarium, Battery Park, NYC
Classification:
Date:
1941
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 22 1/8 x 30 in. ( 56.2 x 76.2 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of George A. Zabriskie
Object Number:
1943.413
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1941
eMuseum Object ID:
12678
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
A Sibyl
Classification:
Date:
1839
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Canvas: 30 1/2 x 25 in. (77.5 x 63.5 cm)
Frame: 42 x 36 7/8 x 5 in. ( 106.7 x 93.7 x 12.7 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of the American-Art Union
Object Number:
1863.9
Inscriptions:
stencil on stretcher: 182; paper label on stretcher: "182 THE SYBIL, (25 X 30" DANIEL HUNTINGTON / PRESENTED BY THE AMERICAN ART UNION, APRIL 7, 1863"
Provenance:
American Art-Union, New York, 1850
Bibliography:
"Editor's Table. The Apollo Association," The Ladies' Companion, November 1840, p. 50.
Transactions of the American Art Union for the year 1845, New York: Printed for the Association by John Douglas, 1850, n.p.
Transactions of the American Art Union for the year 1846, New York: G.F. Nesbitt, Stationer and Printer, 1847, p. 13.
"Critical and Descriptive Articles. The Huntington Exhibition," Bulletin of the American Art-Union, 2, April 1850, p. 4.
Benjamin, S.G.W., "Daniel Huntington, President of the National Academy of Design, First Article," The American Art Review, Vol. 2, No. 6, April 1881, pp. 223-8.
Montgomery, Walter, ed., "Daniel Huntington, President of the National Academy of Design," American Art and American Art Collections: Essays on Artistic Subjects by the best art writers, fully illustrated with etchings, photoetchings, photogravures, phototypes, and engravings on steel and wood by the Most Celebrated Artists, Boston: E.W. Walker & Co., 1978, pp. 19-37.
Koke, Richard J., American Landscape and Genre Paintings in the New York Historical Society, Vol. II, New York: The New-York Historical Society, 1982, pp. 185-6.
Savidou-Terrono, Evdokia, For "The Boys in Blue": The Art Galleries of the Sanitary Fairs, A Dissertation submitted to the Graduate Faculty in Art History in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, The City University of New York, 2002, Vol. II, pp. 733, 737-8.
Greenhouse, Wendy, "Daniel Huntington and the Ideal of Christian Art," Winterthur Portfolio Vol. 31, No. 2/3, Summer-Autumn 1996, pp. 103-40.
Gallati, Barbara Dayer, "American Genre painting and the Rise of 'Average Taste,'" The Magazine Antiques, November/December, 2011, pp. 134-141.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1839
eMuseum Object ID:
12653
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Luther Bradish (1783-1863)
Classification:
Date:
1856
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 44 x 34 in. ( 111.8 x 86.4 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of the artist
Object Number:
1856.2
Gallery Label:
Luther Bradish was Vice-President of The New-York Historical Society from 1845-1849 and President from 1850-1863.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1856
eMuseum Object ID:
12571
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Richard Bayley, M.D.
Classification:
Date:
1860
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 21 1/2 x 18 in. ( 54.6 x 45.7 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of the Right Reverend James Roosevelt Bayley
Object Number:
1864.2
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1860
eMuseum Object ID:
12535
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Still Life with Chinese Sugarbowl, Nautilus Cup, Glasses, and Fruit.
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Collections:
Classification:
Highlight:
Not promoted
Date:
ca. 1675-1700
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Unframed: 31 1/4 × 26 in. (79.4 × 66 cm)
Credit Line:
Gift of The New-York Gallery of the Fine Arts
Object Number:
1858.15
Provenance:
Luman Reed, d. 1836; Mrs. Luman Reed, New York, 1836-44; New-York Gallery of the Fine Arts, 1844-58.
Bibliography:
Krohn, Deborah, Peter Miller, and Marybeth De Filippis, eds., "Dutch New York Between East and West: The World of Margrieta van Varick." New York: Bard Graduate Center, New-York Historical Society, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2009, p. 158-9
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1700
eMuseum Object ID:
12532
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Peter Van Brugh Livingston (1792-1868)
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1819
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 30 x 25 in. ( 76.2 x 63.5 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of Mrs. Livingston Cromwell
Object Number:
1960.90
Gallery Label:
The subject, who graduated from Columbia College in 1811, was the son of Philip Peter and Cornelia (Van Horne) Livingston, and the grandson of Peter Van Brugh Livingston (1710-92). He made a tour of Europe in 1816-19 in the company of Albert Gallatin, and had his portrait painted in Edinburgh by Sir Henry Raeburn, who send the original and a replica to New York immediately afterward. The Society's picture is believed to be the replica.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1819
eMuseum Object ID:
12471
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
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