Alderman Abraham Van Nest's Residence, Greenwich, New York City
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Classification:
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Date:
1832
Medium:
Oil on linen
Dimensions:
Overall: 19 x 25 x 1 in. ( 48.3 x 63.5 x 2.5 cm )
Credit Line:
Purchase, Abbott-Lenox Fund, 1958
Object Number:
1958.88
Marks:
Signature and date: lower right: "PAINTED BY J. W. HILL, N. Y., 1832"
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0
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1832
eMuseum Object ID:
9902
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Landscape with Peasants Dancing
Classification:
Date:
17th century
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 31 1/2 x 46 7/8 x 7/8 in. ( 80 x 119.1 x 2.2 cm )
Object Number:
X.13
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0
Date End:
0
eMuseum Object ID:
9817
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Eleazer Burnham (1780-1867)
Classification:
Date:
1826
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 30 x 24 in. ( 76.2 x 61 cm )
Credit Line:
Purchase
Object Number:
1955.31
Marks:
inscription: on back:"Eleazar (sic) Burnham/of Aurora/Ezra Ames of Albany/Painter. 1826"
Gallery Label:
Eleazer Burnham was the son of Asa Burnham and Lucy (Huntington) Burnham of Bennington, Vermont. About 1798 he moved to Aurora, the first settlement in Cayuga County, New York. Burnham was county surrogate from 1811 to 1813 and from 1815 to 1820, deputy postmaster from 1798 and postmaster from 1811 until about 1822, collector of revenue at Aurora during the War of 1812, and county representive in the assembly in 1826.
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0
Date End:
1826
eMuseum Object ID:
9728
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Gerard Hallock (1800-1866)
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1846
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 27 x 22 in. ( 68.6 x 55.9 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of Mrs. Elmer Bell in memory of John William Dodsworth
Object Number:
1945.431
Gallery Label:
Journalist Gerard Hallock was born in Plainfield, Mass., and was graduated from Williams College. By 1827 he had moved to New York where he acquired part interest in the New York "Observer"; the next year he joined David Hale on the New York "Journal of Commerce," a paper that would be indicted by a grand jury during the Civil War for expressing sympathy with the Southern states.
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0
Date End:
1846
eMuseum Object ID:
9713
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Mrs. John Jay Knox (1794-1875)
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1840
Medium:
Oil on wood panel
Dimensions:
Overall: 30 1/4 x 25 1/4 in. ( 76.8 x 64.1 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of the Estate of Alice A. Knox
Object Number:
1953.136
Gallery Label:
Sarah Ann Curtiss was the daughter of General David and Lucy Curtiss of Augusta, New York. She married John Jay Knox (1791-1876) on October 13, 1813. Her portrait, like that of her husband (1953.135), is the work of one of the numerous unschooled artists working in upstate New York around 1840.
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0
Date End:
1840
eMuseum Object ID:
9658
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Mrs. Gerrit Duyckinck (1666-1738)
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1700-1710
Medium:
Oil on wood panel
Dimensions:
Overall: 30 1/4 x 24 7/8 in. ( 76.8 x 63.2 cm )
Description:
Mrs. Duyckinck wears a brown dress with white trim and a blue-green shawl around her shoulder. Her hair and eyes are brown.
Credit Line:
Bequest of George Abeel
Object Number:
1918.6
Gallery Label:
Born in Albany, Maria Abeel was the daughter of Christopher Janse and Neeltje Jans (Kroom) Abeel. She married Gerrit Duyckinck in the Dutch Church at Albany on July 6, 1683, and from her family inherited large tracts of land around Albany and New York. She was the mother of eleven children and was buried in the graveyard of the Dutch Church in New York.
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0
Date End:
1710
eMuseum Object ID:
9603
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Martin Van Buren (1782-1862)
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1835
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 30 1/8 x 25 1/8 in. ( 76.5 x 63.8 cm )
Credit Line:
Purchase, The Beekman Family Association Fund
Object Number:
1959.28
Gallery Label:
Inman painted several portraits of Van Buren, the eighth president of the United States (1837-41). The Metropolitan Museum of Art has one that is virtually identical to the Society's portrait, and replicas exist at Philipse Manor and at the Brook Club in New York. The portrait was engraved by Edward Wellmore for Herring and Longacre's "National Portrait Gallery of Distinguished Americans," 3, 1836, pl. 33.
Bibliography:
Tuckerman, Henry T., "Inman," Book of the Artists, New York: G. P. Putnam and Sons, 1867, p. 242.
Bolton, Theodore, "Henry Inman, Portrait Painter," Creative Art, Vol. 12, February 1933, p. 161.
Annual Report of the New-York Historical Society for the Year 1959, New York 1960, pp. 6, 9, 18, 52.
Hershkowitz, Leo, "The Loco-Foco Party of New York: Its Origins and Career, 1835-1837," The New-York Historical Society Quarterly, Vol. XLVI, No. 3, July 1962, p. 304.
Gardner, Albert Ten Eyck and Feld, Stuart P., American Paintings: A Catalogue of the Collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Vol. 1, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1965, p. 222.
Roper, Donald M., "Justice Smith Thompson," The New-York Historical Society Quarterly, Vol. LI, No. 2, April 1967, p. 131.
Luhrs, Kathleen and Shadwell, Wendy J., "Portraits of New Yorkers," The New-York Historical Society Quarterly, Vol. LVIII, No. 4, October 1974, pp. 257-260.
Catalogue of American Portraits in the New-York Historical Society, no. 1768, Vol. 2, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1974, pp. 819-21.
Quick, Michael, et al. American Portraiture in the Grand Manner: 1720-1920, Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1981, p. 41.
Gerdts, William H. and Rebora, Carrie, The Art of Henry Inman, Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, National Portrait Gallery, 1987, pp. 45, 106-7.
Caldwell, John, et al., American Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Vol. 1, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1994, pp. 455-8.
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0
Date End:
1835
eMuseum Object ID:
9590
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Self Portrait of Gerrit Duyckinck (1660-ca. 1710)
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Date:
ca. 1700-1710
Medium:
Oil on wood panel
Dimensions:
Overall: 30 x 25 in. ( 76.2 x 63.5 cm )
Credit Line:
Bequest of George Abeel
Object Number:
1918.1
Gallery Label:
Gerrit, the youngest son of Evert (1620-ca. 1702) and Hendrickje (Simons) Duyckinck, was baptized into the Dutch Church in New Amsterdam on April 11, 1660. As early as 1679 he was referred to as "Schilder" (painter), and in 1698/9 he is called a "Limner" ("The Burghers of New Amsterdam, 1675-1866," 1885, P. 73).
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0
Date End:
1710
eMuseum Object ID:
9439
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Mt. Washington Presbyterian Church, Inwood, N.Y.C.
Classification:
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Date:
ca. 1900-1910
Medium:
Oil on canvas, mounted on cardboard
Dimensions:
Overall: 7 x 10 in. ( 17.8 x 25.4 cm )
mat: 11 x 14 in. ( 27.9 x 35.6 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of the artist
Object Number:
1915.35
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1910
eMuseum Object ID:
9370
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John Adams Dix (1798-1879)
Classification:
Date:
1879
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 50 x 40 in. ( 127 x 101.6 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of Charles O'Conor
Object Number:
1880.1
Marks:
signature and date: lower right: "D. Huntington 1879"
Gallery Label:
The military career of John A. Dix began in the War of 1812 and ended in the Civil War, during which he served as general. A prominent Jacksonian Democrat by the late 1820s, he was appointed adjutant general of New York State in 1830, served as secretary of state for New York from 1833-39, and was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1844. From 1873 to 1875 he was governor of New York. Dix joined the N-YHS toward the end of his life and served as its vice-president in 1870.
Bibliography:
"The New York Spring Exhibitions, The Art Journal, 1880, n.p.
The American Art Review, pt. I, 1880, p. 313.
"The Academy Exhibition", Boston: Daily Evening Transcript, March 27, 1880, p. 6
Catalogue of American Portraits in The New-York Historical Society, New Haven: Yale University Press, Vol. 1, 1974, p. 219.
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0
Date End:
1879
eMuseum Object ID:
9309
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
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