Landscape
Classification:
Date:
n.d.
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 12 3/4 x 21 7/8 in. ( 32.4 x 55.6 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of Goodhue Livingston
Object Number:
1950.364
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
0
eMuseum Object ID:
364
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Market Boats Entering Harbor
Classification:
Medium:
oil on linen
Dimensions:
Overall: 25 x 21 x 1 in. ( 63.5 x 53.3 x 2.5 cm )
Object Number:
1921.9
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
0
eMuseum Object ID:
363
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Wool Spinning
Classification:
Date:
1938
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 16 x 12 in. ( 40.6 x 30.5 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of John Ward Dunsmore
Object Number:
1940.275
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1938
eMuseum Object ID:
356
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Egbert Benson (1746-1833)
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1820
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 26 x 21 3/4 in. ( 66 x 55.2 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of John Wesley Jarvis
Object Number:
X.8
Gallery Label:
Benson was born in New York and graduated from King's College (now Columbia) in 1765. A lawyer by profession, he was the first attorney general of New York (1777-87) and judge of the state supreme court from 1794 to 1801. He was an ardent patriot during the years of the Revolution and in 1777 was elected president of the Commissioners for Detecting and Defeating Conspriacies; he was one of the six delegates representing the State of New York in 1789 at the first federal Congress.
Bibliography:
Dunlap, William, History of the Rise and Progress of the Arts of Design in the United States, Vol. 2, New York: George P. Scott and Co., Printers, 1834, p. 78.
Tuckerman, Henry T., Book of Artists, New York: P. Putnam & Son, 1867, pp. 57, 621.
Catalogue of the Gallery of Art of The New York Historical Society, New York: The New-York Historical Society, 1903, p. 4.
Catalogue of the Gallery of Art of The New York Historical Society, New York: The New-York Historical Society, 1915, p. 12.
Kelby, William, Notes on American Artists 1754-1820: Copied from advertisements appearing in the newspapers of the day, New York: The New-York Historical Society, 1922, p. 61.
Harrington, John Walker, "John Wesley Jarvis, Portraitist," The American Magazine of Art, Vol. 18, no. 11, November 1927, pp. 577-84.
Bolton, Theodore, and Groce, George C., Jr., "John Wesley Jarvis: An Account of His Life and the First Catalogue of His Work, Art Quarterly, Vol. 1, No. 4, Autumn 1938, pp. 299-321.
Catalogue of American Portraits in The New-York Historical Society: Oil Portraits, Miniatures, Sculptures, New York: The New-York Historical Society, 1941, p. 22.
Dickson, Harold E., John Wesley Jarvis: American Painter, 1780-1840, New York: The New-York Historical Society, 1949, pp. 326, 344.
Vail, R.W.G., "The Society Grows Up," The New-York Historical Society Quarterly Bulletin, Vol. 38, no. 4, October 1954, pp. 384-477.
Ottenberg, Louis, "Alexander Hamilton's First Court Case," The New-York Historical Society Quarterly Bulletin, Vol. 41, no. 4, October 1957, pp. 423-39.
Catalogue of American Portraits in The New-York Historical Society, Vol. 1, New York: The New-York Historical Society, 1974, p. 70.
Currie, Christina, "19th-Century Portraits on Scored Panels in the Cleveland Museum of Art," Journal of the American Institute for Conservation, Vol. 34, no. 1, Spring 1995, pp. 69-75.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1820
eMuseum Object ID:
357
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Edwin Smith (1822-1906)
Classification:
Date:
1847
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 34 x 27 1/4 in. ( 86.4 x 69.2 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of Edwin Smith
Object Number:
1900.1
Marks:
stamped: oval black: "Prepared by Edwd Dechaux New York"
Gallery Label:
An Egyptologist, Smith was one of the earliest students of Egyptian hieroglyphics. For twenty years he lived at Luxor where in 1862 he acquired the important surgical papyrus which was presented to the Society by his daughter.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1847
eMuseum Object ID:
355
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Beatrice Cameron (1868-1940)
Classification:
Date:
1891
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 42 x 24 in. ( 106.7 x 61 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of Beatrice Cameron
Object Number:
1940.78
Marks:
signature and date: lower right: "J. E. Barclay - 1891"
Gallery Label:
The subject of this portrait was born Susan Hegeman in Troy, New York, but took the stage name Beatrice Cameron when she began her theatrical career in the 1880s. In 1886, while still in her teens, she made her debut with Richard Mansfield's company at the Madison Square Theatre. Though painted in 1891, this portrait represents the subject as a young girl, just at the beginning of her career on the stage.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1891
eMuseum Object ID:
354
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Madison Square Looking West
Classification:
Date:
1940
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 30 x 36 in. ( 76.2 x 91.4 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of the Federal Works Agency, Works Projects Administration
Object Number:
1940.976
Gallery Label:
This painting was executed under the United States Government sponsored Works Progress Administration art program.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1940
eMuseum Object ID:
353
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Rockefeller Center, N.Y.C
Classification:
Date:
1940
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 30 x 40 in. ( 76.2 x 101.6 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of Federal Works Agency, Works Project Administration
Object Number:
1940.979
Gallery Label:
The painting was executed under the United States government-sponsored Works Project Administration art program.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1940
eMuseum Object ID:
351
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Mrs. Stephen S. Griswold
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1860
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 30 x 25 in. ( 76.2 x 63.5 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of Mrs. Josephine Griswold
Object Number:
1940.981
Gallery Label:
Cornelia (Winant) Griswold was left a young widow at the time of her husband's death in a Southern prison camp in 1861.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1860
eMuseum Object ID:
346
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Emeline Smith Hawley (b. 1830)
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1865
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 10 5/8 x 9 1/2 in. ( 27 x 24.1 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of Adelaide Milton de Groot
Object Number:
1941.1048
Gallery Label:
The subject was the daughter of Charles and Mary Stiles (Holly) Hawley, and the sister of the artist. The donor, Adelaide Milton de Groot, was the subject's niece.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1865
eMuseum Object ID:
344
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
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