Mrs. Alexander Hamilton Wallis
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1840-45
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 34 x 27 in. ( 86.4 x 68.6 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of Mrs. Harry K. Dodd
Object Number:
1967.40
Gallery Label:
Elizabeth Geib was the daughter of John Geib, Jr. Her husband, a lawyer, worked in his father's law office in New York City. In 1846 he moved to Jersey City, practiced law, and became an alderman and president of the First National Bank.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1840
eMuseum Object ID:
1310
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Belgian Horses
Classification:
Date:
19th century
Medium:
Oil on panel
Dimensions:
Overall: 20 1/8 x 26 1/2 x 3/8 in. ( 51.1 x 67.3 x 1 cm )
Credit Line:
The Robert L. Stuart Collection, the gift of his widow Mrs. Mary Stuart
Object Number:
S-37
Marks:
inscriptions: Signed lower left: W. Verschuur.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
0
eMuseum Object ID:
1305
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 1/4 x 7 in. ( 23.5 x 17.8 cm )
Credit Line:
Bequest of Waldron Phoenix Belknap, Jr.
Object Number:
1950.227
Marks:
inscription: on back: "Alethea's copy . . . Dup . . . No. 3"
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 portrait of her was the third copy made after the original; it was made for Alethea Lenox, one of her daughters.
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. 69, The Art Quarterly 3, no. 4, Autumn 1940, p. 408.
Phillips, John Marshall, et al., eds., The Waldron Phoenix Belknap, Jr. Collections of Portraits and Silver, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1955, pp. 36-7.
Catalogue of American Portraits in the New-York Historical Society, no. 1768, Vol. 1, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1974, pp. 452-3.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1830
eMuseum Object ID:
1303
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Landscape
Classification:
Date:
1837
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 10 x 12 in. ( 25.4 x 30.5 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of Mrs. Marjorie R. Reynolds
Object Number:
1942.261
Marks:
Signature and date: verso: "D. HUNTINGTON 1837"
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1837
eMuseum Object ID:
1300
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
New York Harbor, N.Y.C
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1880
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 18 x 24 in. ( 45.7 x 61 cm )
Framed: 21 3/4 × 27 1/2 × 3 3/4 in. (55.2 × 69.9 × 9.5 cm)
Credit Line:
Purchase
Object Number:
1935.71
Marks:
Signed lower left: EDW. MORAN
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1885
eMuseum Object ID:
1299
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Queen Mary II, England
Classification:
Medium:
oil on linen
Dimensions:
Overall: 16 x 13 x 1 in. ( 40.6 x 33 x 2.5 cm )
Object Number:
1952.42
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
0
eMuseum Object ID:
1294
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Henry Parish (1788-1856)
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1835-1840
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 30 1/2 x 25 3/8 in. ( 77.5 x 64.5 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of Mrs. F. de Lancey Robinson
Object Number:
1953.314
Gallery Label:
Parish was a prominent New York merchant and a director of the Phoenix Bank. In 1829 he married Susan Maria Delafield, the great-aunt of the donor of this portrait.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1840
eMuseum Object ID:
1293
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Cornelius Harsen (1783-1838)
Classification:
Date:
n.d.
Medium:
Oil on wood panel
Dimensions:
Overall: 19 1/4 x 17 in. ( 48.9 x 43.2 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of Mrs. Lillian Portsch
Object Number:
1956.116
Gallery Label:
The subject's forbears were among the earliest settlers of Manhattan Island. The family farm included much of what is now Central Park and extended westward to the Hudson River.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
0
eMuseum Object ID:
1291
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Sealing A Letter
Classification:
Date:
19th century
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 13 x 9 11/16 x 5/8 in. ( 33 x 24.6 x 1.6 cm )
Credit Line:
The Robert L. Stuart Collection, the gift of his widow Mrs. Mary Stuart
Object Number:
S-31
Marks:
inscriptions: Signed lower right; P. Seignac
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
0
eMuseum Object ID:
1289
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Philip Jacob Arcularius (ca.1750-1825)
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1810
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 30 x 24 in. ( 76.2 x 61 cm )
Credit Line:
Bequest of Mrs. Lathrop Colgate Harper
Object Number:
1957.212
Gallery Label:
Originally from Marburg, Germany, Arcularius settled in New York City by 1789. By 1794 he was settled at 11 Frankfort Street, where he remained active as a tanner and currier until his death. In 1805, he was appointed superintendent of the almshouse by vote of the Common Council of New York.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1810
eMuseum Object ID:
1290
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
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