Reverend Frederick Foote Peake (1809-1846)
Classification:
Highlight:
Not promoted
Date:
ca. 1845
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 30 1/4 x 25 in. ( 76.8 x 63.5 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of Alice Peake MacNiece
Object Number:
1948.521
Gallery Label:
The subject graduated from the General Theological Seminary in New York in 1836 and was ordained in the same year as a Protestant Episcopal deacon. After his ordination he went to Missouri as a missionary working among the Indians and the few white settlers at Boonville where he established a congregation. He later served as rector of Christ Church, St. Louis, and Christ Church, Pensacola, Florida. His portrait was a gift to the Society from his granddaugther.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1845
eMuseum Object ID:
615
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Mrs. Melancthon Taylor Woolsey (1796-1863)
Classification:
Highlight:
Not promoted
Date:
ca. 1820
Medium:
Oil on wood panel
Dimensions:
Overall: 34 3/4 x 27 in. ( 88.3 x 68.6 cm )
Credit Line:
Bequest of Melancthon Woolsey Campau
Object Number:
1954.108
Gallery Label:
Susan Cornelia Tredwell was the daughter of James Tredwell of New York, and was married to Commodore Woolsey on November 3, 1817. Her portrait was a gift to the Society from her great-grandson.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1820
eMuseum Object ID:
614
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Mrs. John Trumbull
Classification:
Medium:
oil on linen
Dimensions:
Overall: 25 x 21 x 1 in. ( 63.5 x 53.3 x 2.5 cm )
Object Number:
1982.11
Bibliography:
Sizer, Theodore, The Works of Colonel John Trumbull: Artist of the American Revolution, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1967, pp. 73-4.
Jaffe, Irma B., John Trumbull: Patriot-Artist of the American Revolution, Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1975, pp. 190-205, 312-3.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
0
eMuseum Object ID:
613
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Robert Lenox (1759-1839)
Classification:
Date:
1806
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 36 1/4 x 28 in. ( 92.1 x 71.1 cm )
Frame: 47 x 37 1/4 x 3 1/4 in. (119.4 x 94.6 x 8.3 cm)
Credit Line:
Bequest of Waldron Phoenix Belknap, Jr.
Object Number:
1950.225
Marks:
label: on back: "Robert Lenox / painted by Trumbull"
Gallery Label:
The subject, the son of James and Elizabeth (Sproat) Lenox, was born in Kirkcudbright, Scotland, and came to America just prior to the Revolution. A prosperous merchant, he served as president of the New York Chamber of Commerce from 1826 to 1839. Trumbull made this copy of an earlier portrait of his when Lenox was the height of his career; the original is in the Lenox Collection of the New York Public Library.
Bibliography:
Sizer, Theodore, The Works of Colonel John Trumbull: Artist of the American Revolution, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1967, pp. 10, 49.
Catalogue of American Portraits in The New-York Historical Society, New Haven: Yale University Press, Vol. 1, 1974, pp. 451-2.
Jaffe, Irma B., John Trumbull: Patriot-Artist of the American Revolution, Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1975, pp. 212, 310-2
Cooper, Helen A., John Trumbull: The Hand and Spirit of a Painter, New Haven: Yale University Art Gallery, 1982, pp. 162-3.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1806
eMuseum Object ID:
612
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Mrs. James Codwise (1756-1843)
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1805
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 30 1/8 x 24 1/8 in. ( 76.5 x 61.3 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of Waldron Phoenix Belknap, Jr.
Object Number:
1952.93
Gallery Label:
Rebecca Rogers, the daughter of John Rogers of Mt. Victory Plantation, St. Croix, West Indies, was married to James Codwise in 1797.
Bibliography:
Sizer, Theodore, The Works of Colonel John Trumbull: Artist of the American Revolution, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1967, p. 27.
Catalogue of American Portraits in The New-York Historical Society, New Haven: Yale University Press, Vol. 1, 1974, pp. 152-3.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1805
eMuseum Object ID:
611
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Unidentified man
Classification:
Date:
1839
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 22 x 16 in. ( 55.9 x 40.6 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of Erskine Hewitt
Object Number:
1923.7
Marks:
signature and date: on the back: "Cohill 1839"
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1839
eMuseum Object ID:
608
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Schooner "Edward F. Williams"
Classification:
Date:
1891
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 22 x 36 in. ( 55.9 x 91.4 cm )
Credit Line:
Purchase
Object Number:
1923.76
Marks:
Signature and date: lower right: "A. JACOBSEN 1891 / 705 PALISADE AV. WEST HOBOKEN, N. J."
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1891
eMuseum Object ID:
607
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Steamboat "Mary Powell"
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1860-90
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 25 3/4 x 51 3/4 x 7/8 in. ( 65.4 x 131.4 x 2.2 cm )
Credit Line:
Purchase
Object Number:
1924.111
Gallery Label:
This painting was purchased by the Society in 1924 from the Collection of James S. Hall.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1860
eMuseum Object ID:
605
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Joshua Jones (1757-1821)
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1815
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 33 x 26 in. ( 83.8 x 66 cm )
Description:
Credit Line:
Gift of Mrs. Henry Burr Barnes
Object Number:
1944.1
Gallery Label:
The subject, the second son of John Jones, Jr., and Frances (Quereau) Jones, was a merchant in New York. His portrait was a gift to the Society from his great-great-granddaughter.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1815
eMuseum Object ID:
604
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Unidentified man
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1820
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 50 1/4 x 40 in. ( 127.6 x 101.6 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of the Heirs of Walter Jennings
Object Number:
1950.145
Marks:
label: on back of frame: "Gov. George Clinton by Ezra Ames / Property of John Quincy Adams / Ambassador to Court of St. James"
Gallery Label:
It is possible that this portrait was painted by an English rather than an American artist. The subject is not Governor Clinton, as the old label states, nor is the portrait the work of Ezra Ames. It is not known whether or not it once belonged to John Quincy Adams.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1820
eMuseum Object ID:
598
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
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