Mrs. J. Phillip Schmand (1874-1968)
Classification:
Date:
1901
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 40 x 20 in. ( 101.6 x 50.8 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of Mrs. J. Phillip Schmand
Object Number:
1943.278
Marks:
signature and date: upper left: "P. Schmand, Aug. 1901 / Buffalo, N.Y."
Gallery Label:
Wilhelmine Joan Steeg was the daughter of Francis Steeg and Emma A. (Scheidweiler) Steeg of New York. She married J. Phillip Schmand (1871-1942) on December 27, 1911. In 1943 Mrs. Schmand, who was an associate member of N-YHS from that year until her death, gave the Society a number of portraits by her husband who had died the year before; among these were five of herself.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1901
eMuseum Object ID:
7299
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
John Divine Jones (1814-1895)
Classification:
Date:
1892
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 60 x 52 in. ( 152.4 x 132.1 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of Louisa F. J. Thorn, in the name of Mrs. John Divine Jones
Object Number:
1909.14
Marks:
signature: lower left: "D. Huntington 1892"
Gallery Label:
The subject was associated with the Atlantic Mutual Insurance Company for most of his career, and served the firm as president from 1855 to 1895.
Bibliography:
"The Academy of Design," The Sun, New York: March 27, 1893, p. 6.
"The National Academy Exhibition," Harper's Weekly, April ?, 1893, p. 300.
"Questions of Art," The World, April 9, 1893, p. 29.
"Monthly Review of American Art," The Magazine of Art, June, 1983, p, xxii.
Catalogue of American Portraits in The New-York Historical Society, New Haven: Yale University Press, Vol. 1, 1974, p. 408.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1892
eMuseum Object ID:
7296
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Barent Rynders, Jr. (d. 1726)
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1720-1726
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 30 1/2 x 25 1/2 in. ( 77.5 x 64.8 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of the Estate of Gerard Rutgers Hardenbergh, through Elizabeth Rutgers Baldwin
Object Number:
1927.4
Gallery Label:
The subject, a New York merchant, was the son of Barent Rynders. Sr. (d. 1682), an immigrant from Holland, and his wife Elizabeth Van Cortlandt. He married Hester Leisler, daughter of Jacob Leisler, in 1696. This portrait, by an unidentified artist, is similar in style to portraits by Evert Duyckinck, III (ca. 1677-1727).
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1726
eMuseum Object ID:
7250
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
The Intelligence Office
Collections:
Classification:
Date:
1849
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 22 x 27 in. ( 55.9 x 68.6 cm )
frame: 29 x 34 1/2 x 3 1/2 in. (29 x 34 1/2 x 3 1/2 in.)
Description:
Genre painting that depicts a female employment office; the two women off to the left respond to the ad in the Sun newspaper, which is crumpled at one of the women's feet; the woman sitting in the chair is the potential employer; in the center, is the agent presiding over the of the office; his duties, which are stated on a sign on the wall next to him, say that he is "warranted" to provide domestic employers who are "honest".
Credit Line:
Purchase, Abbott-Lenox Fund
Object Number:
1959.46
Inscriptions:
Inscribed on reverse: The Intelijuns Ofis / Wm. Henri Bur / June 1849
Bibliography:
Weinberg, H. Barbara, and Barratt, Carrie Rebora, Eds., American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life 1765-1915, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2009, pp. 31-2, 72.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1849
eMuseum Object ID:
7246
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Henry Silas Payson
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1850
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 27 x 21 7/8 in. ( 68.6 x 55.6 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of Mrs. William Hyde Wheeler
Object Number:
1947.22
Gallery Label:
This bust-length portrait of a young boy represents a cousin of the donor.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1850
eMuseum Object ID:
7224
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Elijah Dyer
Classification:
Date:
1893
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 40 x 30 1/8 in. ( 101.6 x 76.5 cm )
Object Number:
X.153
Marks:
signature: lower left: "C. D. Gibson"
inscription: lower right: "Captain Elijah Dyer / Maine - 93"
Gallery Label:
The subject is identified in an inscription on the back of the canvas as "Captain Elijah Dyer"; however, he does not wear a uniform in the portrait.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1893
eMuseum Object ID:
7213
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Mrs. John Rogers, Jr. (1841-1927)
Classification:
Date:
1920
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 30 x 25 in. ( 76.2 x 63.5 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of Katherine R. Rogers
Object Number:
1955.156
Marks:
signed and dated: lower right: "E.C. Bannister/1920"
Gallery Label:
Harriet Moore Francis was the daughter of Charles Stephen Francis, a successful publisher and bookseller in New York. She married the sculptor John Rogers in 1865. Her portrait was a gift to the Society from her daughter.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1920
eMuseum Object ID:
7201
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Steamship "Mohawk"
Classification:
Date:
1899
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 22 x 36 in. ( 55.9 x 91.4 cm )
Credit Line:
Purchase
Object Number:
1939.529
Marks:
Signature and date: lower right: "A. JACOBSEN 1899 / 31 PALISADE AV WEST HOBOKEN, NJ"
Gallery Label:
A replica by Jacobsen (oil on canvas, 22 x 36 inches), also dated 1899, was in the collection of the Old Print Shop, New York City, in 1959.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1899
eMuseum Object ID:
7184
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Mountain Stream, Jewett, N.Y.
Classification:
Date:
1884
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 10 1/2 x 14 in. ( 26.7 x 35.6 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of Gertrude O. Tubby
Object Number:
1951.349
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1884
eMuseum Object ID:
7167
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Charles Keller Beekman (1868-1941)
Classification:
Medium:
oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 40 1/4 x 30 1/4 x 3/4 in. ( 102.2 x 76.8 x 1.9 cm )
Object Number:
1978.62
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
0
eMuseum Object ID:
7142
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
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