Steamboat "Trojan" in New York
Classification:
Date:
1909
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 42 x 66 in. ( 106.7 x 167.6 cm )
Credit Line:
Purchase, General Fund
Object Number:
1938.405
Date Begin:
1909
Date End:
1909
eMuseum Object ID:
3895
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Garret Rapalje (b. 1730)
Classification:
Date:
1768
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 42 x 30 in. ( 106.7 x 76.2 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of Mrs. Eliza J. Watson in memory of her husband, John Jay Watson
Object Number:
1946.200
Gallery Label:
Garret Rapalje, the son of George Janse Rapalje and Diana (Middagh) Rapalje, married Helena De Nyse (b. 1732) and lived and worked as an importer in New York. He was an assistant alderman in the city during the 1760s. He and Helena had four children, Garret II, George, Anne, and Jaques. John Durand painted a portrait of the Rapalje children in 1768, also in the Society's collection (1946.201), and is regarded as his best and most ambitious work. John Durand (1731-1805) first began working in Virginia in 1765, but by 1766 had moved to New York City to paint portraits of the Beekman children for their father James Beekman. Durand’s background and training are unknown, but his use of rococo colors, interest in historical paintings and reference to his name in French lead art historians to believe he was born or trained in France. He left New York in 1768 as one of the city’s most celebrated painters and returned to Virginia, where he lived for most of the remainder of his life. The style of his late work executed in Virginia changed notably, never garnering him the critical acclaim and popular response his early New York portraits had received.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1768
eMuseum Object ID:
3856
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Beacon Hills on the Hudson River, opposite Newburg-painted on the spot
- Read more about Beacon Hills on the Hudson River, opposite Newburg-painted on the spot
- Order a Digital Image
Collections:
Classification:
Highlight:
Not promoted
Date:
ca. 1852
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall (canvas): 32 x 46 in. (81.3 x 116.8 cm)
Frame: 43 1/2 x 57 1/2 x 4 1/2 in. (110.5 x 146.1 x 11.4 cm)
Credit Line:
Gift of Mrs. Lucy Maria Durand Woodman
Object Number:
1907.11
Gallery Label:
This painting is closely related in subject, composition, and style to Durand's Fishkill Mountains, New York, signed and dated 1856, owned by the Peabody Institute of the City of Baltimore. The Society's study probably dates to the same year.
Bibliography:
Catalogue of the Gallery of Art of The New York Historical Society, New York: Printed for the Society, 1915, p. 42.
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. 168, 218, 411-2, 425-6, 676.
Lawall, David B., Asher B. Durand: A Documentary Catalogue of the Narrative and Landscape Paintings, New York & London, Garland Publishing, Inc., 1978, pp. 116-7.
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. 343.
Bland, Bartholomew F. and Vookles, Laura L. The Panoramic River: The Hudson and the Thames. Yonkers: Hudson River Museum, 2013.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1852
eMuseum Object ID:
3769
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Charles Morgan (1795-1878)
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1855-1860
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 16 x 13 in. ( 40.6 x 33 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of Irene and Emily Braman
Object Number:
1953.77
Gallery Label:
The subject moved to New York from rural Connecticut in 1809, opened a grocery store, and began importing fruit from the West Indies. Eventually, he amassed a sizable merchant fleet which carried goods from the Caribbean Islands and Gulf ports to New York. He next acquired the Morgan Iron Works on the East River where engines and machinery for steamships were made, and later acquired railroads in Louisiana and Texas.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1860
eMuseum Object ID:
3745
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Samuel Thomson (1784-1850)
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1835-1840
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 34 x 27 1/8 in. ( 86.4 x 68.9 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Thomson Cookingham
Object Number:
1952.34
Gallery Label:
The subject, a native of Baltimore, was an architect in New York. He designed the old U.S. Customs House, later called Federal Hall, and various churches in lower and upper Manhattan. His letters and notes relating to the construction of the Customs House are in the manuscript division of The New-York Historical Society.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1840
eMuseum Object ID:
3630
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Oliver D. Norton, M.D. (1821-1907)
Classification:
Date:
1897
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 27 x 22 in. ( 68.6 x 55.9 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of the artist
Object Number:
1941.312
Marks:
signature and date: at right: "John Ward Dunsmore, 1897"
Gallery Label:
The subject was a prominent physician and surgeon in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1897
eMuseum Object ID:
3576
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Mrs. Darius Mead (1787-1848)
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1847-1848
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 34 x 27 in. ( 86.4 x 68.6 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of Mrs. Edwin A. Abbey
Object Number:
1929.24
Gallery Label:
Lydia K. Belcher was the daughter of Dr. Elisha Belcher of Round Hill, Greenwich, Connecticut. She married Dr. Darius Mead (1787-1864) in 1809. Her portrait was a gift to the Society from her granddaughter.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1848
eMuseum Object ID:
3534
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
John Drake (ca. 1772-after 1842)
Classification:
Date:
1842
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 30 x 25 in. ( 76.2 x 63.5 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of Nina Sturges Skidmore and Samuel Treadwell Skidmore, Jr.
Object Number:
1947.265
Marks:
signature and date: on back: "John Drake / of New York / Aetatis 70 years / C.E. Weir / pinxt / July, 1842"
Gallery Label:
Drake was a prosperous New York merchant who in 1813, along with his brother Jacob, lent the government $10,000 to help finance the War of 1812. The cane that he holds, of which he was especially proud, was given to the Society along with the portrait.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1842
eMuseum Object ID:
3433
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
James Madison (1750/51-1836)
Classification:
Date:
1833
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Unframed: 24 1/4 × 20 1/4 in. (61.6 × 51.4 cm)
Framed: 31 1/4 in. × 27 1/2 in. × 3 in. (79.4 × 69.9 × 7.6 cm)
Credit Line:
Gift of P. Kemble Paulding
Object Number:
1870.1
Gallery Label:
This portrait was apparently painted at the request of George P. Morris, and it may have passed from him to James Kirke Paulding, father of the donor. John William Casilear, a pupil of Durand, made an engraving of it which was published in "The New York Mirror" on August 9, 1834.
Bibliography:
"Editor's Table," The Knickerbocker, Vol. 5, No. 5, pp. 399-400.
"Miscellaneous Notices of the Fine Arts, Literature, Science, the Drama, &c.
National Academy of Design - 9th Exhibition, 1834," The American Monthly Magazine III (May 1, 1834), No. 69, p. 211.
"National Academy of Design," The New York Evening Post, May 9, 1834, p. 2.
Morris, G. P., ed., "The Fine Arts: The National Academy," The New-York Mirror, A Weekly Journal, Devoted to Literature and the Fine Arts, Vol. XI, May 17, 1834, p. 367.
Morris, G. P., ed., "National Portrait Gallery," New-York Mirror, A Weekly Journal, Devoted to Literature and the Fine Art Vol. XII, No. 6, August 9, 1941, p. 41.
Tuckerman, Henry T., Book of the Artists, American Artist Life, Comprising Biographical and Critical Sketches of American Artists: Preceded by an Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of Art in America, New York: P. Putnam & Son, 1867, p. 192.
Harpers New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 66, no. 196, May 1883, p. 860.
Hunt, Gaillard, The Life of James Madison, New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1902, p. 377.
"Pictures by Durand," The New York Times, April 26, 1903, p. 34.
Catalogue of the Gallery of Art of The New York Historical Society, New York: Printed for the Society, 1915, p. 25.
Sherman, Frederic Fairchild, Early American Portraiture, New York: Privately Printed, 1930, p. 41.
Bolton, Theodore, The William and Mary Quarterly, 3rd Ser. Vol. 8, No. 1, January 1951, pp. 25-47.
Vail, R. W., Knickerbocker Birthday: A Sesqui Centennial History of The New-York Historical Society 1804-1954, New York: The New-York Historical Society, 1954, pp. 136, 341.
Vail, R. W., "A Distinguished Company," The New-York Historical Society Quarterly, Vol. XXXVIII, no. 2, April 1954, p. 151.
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. 18, 45-6, 149-52, 156-9, 571, 614, 619.
Callow, James T., Kindred Spirits: Knickerbocker Writers and American Artists, 1807-1855, Durham, North Carolina, The University of North Carolina Press, 1967, p. 100-1.
Dunlap, William, A History of the Rise and Progress of The Arts of Design in the United States, A Reprint of the Original 1834 Edition with a New Introduction by
James Thomas Flexner, 1969, Vol. 2, Part 2, New York: Dover Publications, p. 287-8.
Catalogue of American Portraits in The New-York Historical Society, New Haven: Yale University Press, Vol. II, 1974, p. 513-4.
Durand, John, The Life and Times of Asher B. Durand, Hensonville, New York: Black Dome Press, 2006 (first published by C. Scribner's Sons, 1894), p. 109.
Ferber, Linda S., ed., "Asher B. Durand, American Landscape Painter", Kindred Spirits Asher B. Durand and the American Landscape, Brooklyn Museum, 2007, pp. 65, 81, 207, Chronology.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1833
eMuseum Object ID:
3384
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Morning on the Cumberland Mountains
Classification:
Date:
1854
Medium:
oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 42 1/8 x 3/4 in. ( 107 x 1.9 cm )
Credit Line:
The Robert L. Stuart Collection, the gift of his widow Mrs. Mary Stuart
Object Number:
S-59
Marks:
inscriptions: Signed, dated lower right: Cooper 1854
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1854
eMuseum Object ID:
3347
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Pages
