Engagment between USS Chesapeake and HMS Shannon, June 1, 18
Classification:
Highlight:
Not promoted
Date:
1813
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 12 x 16 in. ( 30.5 x 40.6 cm )
Credit Line:
Bequest of Irving S. Olds
Object Number:
1963.57
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1813
eMuseum Object ID:
788
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Mrs. John Richardson Bayard Rodgers (1768-1818)
Classification:
Highlight:
Not promoted
Date:
ca. 1810-1815
Medium:
Oil on wood panel
Dimensions:
Overall: 33 1/4 x 25 7/8 in. ( 84.5 x 65.7 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of Mrs. Bayard Verplanck
Object Number:
1957.101
Gallery Label:
This portrait, a pendant to the one of the subject's husband, is listed in the checklist of the artist's works in Dickson, "John Wesley Jarvis," 1949, p. 364, no. 203.
Bibliography:
Dickson, Harold E., John Wesley Jarvis: American Painter, 1780-1840, New York: The New-York Historical Society, 1949, p. 364.
"Department of the Museum," Annual Report of the New-York Historical Society for the Year 1954, New York, The New-York Historical Society, 1955, p. 45.
Catalogue of American Portraits in The New-York Historical Society, Vol. 2, New York: The New-York Historical Society, 1974, pp. 673-4.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1815
eMuseum Object ID:
787
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Learning to Slide
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1862
Medium:
Oil on millboard
Dimensions:
Overall: 8 1/2 x 6 in. ( 21.6 x 15.2 cm )
Credit Line:
The Robert L. Stuart Collection, the gift of his widow Mrs. Mary Stuart
Object Number:
S-150
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1862
eMuseum Object ID:
786
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Peck children
Classification:
Medium:
Oil on linen
Dimensions:
Overall: 24 5/8 x 24 3/4 x 3/4 in. ( 62.5 x 62.9 x 1.9 cm )
Object Number:
1974.34
Gallery Label:
In this portrait, Frank Peck is at the top of the painting, and Charlotte and Henry, Jr. are at the bottom.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
0
eMuseum Object ID:
785
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Illustration for "For King or Country"
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1896
Medium:
Oil on canvas, painted in black-and-white
Dimensions:
Overall: 12 x 17 in. ( 30.5 x 43.2 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of Oscar Theodore Barck, Sr.
Object Number:
1954.140
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1896
eMuseum Object ID:
784
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Sarah Livingston Alexander (Mrs. William Alexander)
Classification:
Highlight:
Not promoted
Date:
ca. 1750
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 30 x 25 in. ( 76.2 x 63.5 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of Mrs. Livingston Cromwell (Cornelia T. Livingston)
Object Number:
1961.37
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1750
eMuseum Object ID:
783
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Mrs. Frederick Haynes (1834-97)
Classification:
Date:
1894
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 36 1/4 x 26 1/4 in. ( 92.1 x 66.7 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of Colonel Louis Effingham de Forest
Object Number:
1952.6
Gallery Label:
Mrs. Haynes, the former Caroline de Forest, was the mother of the artist.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1894
eMuseum Object ID:
782
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Cornelius Steenwyck (? - 1684)
Collections:
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1670
Medium:
Oil on wood panel
Dimensions:
Overall (panel): 12 1/8 x 9 7/8 in. (30.8 x 25.1 cm)
Credit Line:
Gift of Mrs. Eliza M. Clarke through G. de Haert Gillespie
Object Number:
1856.1
Bibliography:
Collections of the New-York Historical Society for the year 1893, New York: The New-York Historical Society, 1894, pp. 414-5, 444.
De Riemer, Rev. W.E., The De Riemer Family A.D. 1640(?)-1903, New York: Thbias A. Wright, 1905, pp. 7-15.
Catalogue of the Gallery of Art of The New-York Historical Society, New York, The New-York Historical Society, 1915, p. 31.
Bolton, Charles Knowles, The Founders: Portraits of Persons Born Abroad Who Came to the Colonies in North America Before the Year 1701, Boston: The Boston Athenaeum, 1919, Vol. 1, pp. 301-3.
Catalogue of American Portraits in The New-York Historical Society, New Haven: Yale University Press, Vol. II, 1974, pp. 757-8.
Still, Bayrd, "New York's Mayors: the Initial Generation," Essays in the History of New York City: A Memorial to Sidney Pomerantz, Port Washington: Kennikat Press, 1978, pp. 7-20.
The Birth of New York: Nieuw Amsterdam 1624-1664, New York: The New-York Historical Society, 1982, pp. 3, 17-19.
Hallam, John S., "The Portrait of Cornelis Steenwyck and Dutch Colonial Experience in America," The Low Countries and the New World(s): Travel, Discovery, Early Relations, Lanham, MD: University Press of America, Inc., 2000, pp. 77-91.
Ruby, Louisa Wood, "Dutch Art and the Hudson Valley Patroon Painters," Going Dutch: The Dutch Presence in America, 1609-2009, Leiden: Brill, 2008, pp. 33-4.
Krohn, Deborah L. and Miller, Peter N., eds. Dutch New York Between East and West: The World of Margrieta Van Varick, New York: Bard Graduate Center: Decorative Arts, Design History, Material Culture: New York: The New-York Historical Society; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009, p. 188.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1670
eMuseum Object ID:
778
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Nicholas Murray Butler (1862-1947)
Classification:
Date:
1932
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 50 x 40 in. ( 127 x 101.6 cm )
Description:
A portrait of Nicholas Murray Butler (1862-1947) shown wearing a dark suit underneath a red academia robe. His head is turned slightly to the right and he is holding his hat of office in his right hand. His left hand is depicted grasping the arm of the chair. There is a non-descript background. A native of New Jersey, Butler was president of Columbia University from 1902 to 1945. In 1912 he ran unsuccessfully for vice-president on the Republican party ticket, and in 1920 received nearly seventy votes from the New York delegation in nomination as Republican candidate for president. Butler was a president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and in 1931 was a co-winner (with Jane Addams) of the Nobel Prize for Peace. He became a life member of N-YHS in 1905.
Credit Line:
Painted from life for the society
Object Number:
1932.60
Marks:
signature and date: upper right: "DeWitt M. Lockman 1932"
Gallery Label:
As President of Columbia University for over 40 years, Butler had a significant impact on this quintessentially New York City institution, whose roots go back to early colonial days as Kings College. Both a scholar and a masterful administrator, Butler is remembered still as an important leader of the University.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1932
eMuseum Object ID:
775
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Study from Nature: Trees and Rocks
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1850-1860
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 17 1/2 x 14 3/4 in. ( 44.5 x 37.5 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of Nora Durand Woodman
Object Number:
1932.226
Gallery Label:
This is a fragment cut from a larger picture.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1860
eMuseum Object ID:
776
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
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