Eli White (1791-1873)
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1845-50
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 24 x 20 in. ( 61 x 50.8 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of Mrs. John Ross Delafield
Object Number:
1941.641
Gallery Label:
Eli White was the son of Ebenezer B. White and Betsy (Mygatt) White. He became a successful merchant in Danbury, Connecticut. His portrait was a gift to the Society from his grandniece.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1845
eMuseum Object ID:
2633
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Shandaken Range, Kingston, New York
Collections:
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1854
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 21 1/2 x 17 in. ( 54.6 x 43.2 cm )
Framed: 31 in. × 26 1/2 in. × 3 in. (78.7 × 67.3 × 7.6 cm)
Credit Line:
Purchase, The Louis Durr Fund
Object Number:
1887.5
Gallery Label:
Durand modeled the trees in the foreground of a Landscape signed and dated 1855, now owned by the Toledo Museum of Art, after the trees in this study.
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. 21, no. 308.
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, p. 170.
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. 249.
Lawall, David B., Asher B. Durand: A Documentary Catalogue of the Narrative and Landscape Paintings, New York & London, Garland Publishing, Inc., 1978, pp. 182-3.
Koke, Richard J., American Landscape and Genre Paintings in the New York Historical Society, Vol. I, New York: The New-York Historical Society, 1982, pp. 335-6.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1854
eMuseum Object ID:
2568
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Eugene H. Durand
Classification:
Date:
1853-54
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 20 x 16 in. ( 50.8 x 40.6 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of Mrs. Lucy Maria Durand Woodman
Object Number:
1907.23
Gallery Label:
The subject was the infant son of Asher B. Durand and his second wife, Mary (Frank) Durand. The portrait was a gift to the Society from his sister.
Bibliography:
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. 156-9, 201, 616.
Catalogue of American Portraits in The New-York Historical Society, New Haven: Yale University Press, Vol. 1, 1974, p. 236.
Smith, Alvy Ray, compiled by, Dr. John Durand (1664-1727) of Derby Connecticut: His Family Through Four Generations Featuring the Branch of His Youngest Son Ebenezer Durand Through Ten Generations to 2003, Boston: Newbury Street Press, 2003, p. 279.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1854
eMuseum Object ID:
2559
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Charles L. Heiser (1823-1856)
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1850
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 16 x 13 in. ( 40.6 x 33 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of Frederick I. Lockman
Object Number:
1935.147
Gallery Label:
The subject was the son of Christopher and Sarah (Kennedy) Heiser of New York.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1850
eMuseum Object ID:
2535
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Mrs. Cassius Hunt (?)
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1755-1760
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 49 3/4 x 39 in. ( 126.4 x 99.1 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of Waldron Phoenix Belknap, Jr.
Object Number:
1956.2
Gallery Label:
The Society acquired this item in 1956 from the collection of Waldron Phoenix Belknap, Jr.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1760
eMuseum Object ID:
2533
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Cadwallader Colden (1687/8-1776)
Classification:
Date:
n.d.
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 49 x 40 in. ( 124.5 x 101.6 cm )
Frame: 58 3/4 x 49 7/8 x 3 15/16 in. (149.2 x 126.7 x 10 cm)
Credit Line:
Gift of the Estate of Marjorie Patterson
Object Number:
1951.68
Gallery Label:
Born in Ireland, Colden came to America in the early 18th century and settled in New York in 1718. Politically a staunch Loyalist on the side of the crown in the Stamp Act controversy, he served as lieutenant governor of New York from 1761 to 1776. Colden was also the author of "The History of the Five Indian Nations," first published in 1727. His papers, which were presented to the Society by his great-grandson, have been published in nine volumes of the Society's "Collections."
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
0
eMuseum Object ID:
2393
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Mrs. Peter Moller
Classification:
Date:
1858
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 30 x 25 in. ( 76.2 x 63.5 cm )
Credit Line:
Purchase, Abbott-Lenox Fund
Object Number:
1957.229
Marks:
signature and date: right center: "Elliott / 1858"
Gallery Label:
The subject's maiden name was Sarah Tietzen.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1858
eMuseum Object ID:
2382
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Moliere in the Greenroom, the Quarrel
Classification:
Date:
1873
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 32 1/8 x 25 7/8 in. ( 81.6 x 65.7 cm )
Credit Line:
The Robert L. Stuart Collection, the gift of his widow Mrs. Mary Stuart
Object Number:
S-101
Marks:
inscriptions: Signed, dated lower right: May. 1875
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1873
eMuseum Object ID:
2371
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Mrs. Robert Lenox (1763-1843)
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1825-1830
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 9 x 6 1/2 in. ( 22.9 x 16.5 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of Mrs. Edward L. Center and R. McAllister Lloyd
Object Number:
1958.132
Gallery Label:
Rachel Carmer was the daughter of Nicholas Carmer, who was a cabinetmaker and hardware merchant in New York. She married Robert Lenox in 1783. This is one of three replicas by Inman for members of the Lenox family. It is the companion to the small portrait of Robert Lenox.
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. 160.
Bolton, Theodore, "A Catalogue of the Paintings of Henry Inman," no. 81, The Art Quarterly 3, no. 4, Autumn 1940, p. 408.
Catalogue of American Portraits in the New-York Historical Society, no. 1768, Vol. 1, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1974, p. 452.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1830
eMuseum Object ID:
2346
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Gentleman of the Agate Family
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1835-1840
Medium:
Oil on wood panel
Dimensions:
Overall: 29 7/8 x 24 1/8 in. ( 75.9 x 61.3 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of the Ossining Historical Society
Object Number:
1959.56
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1840
eMuseum Object ID:
2327
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
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