Sir Henry Irving (1838-1905)
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1900
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 50 1/4 x 36 in. ( 127.6 x 91.4 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of F. Lorenz Smith in memory of his brother, the artist
Object Number:
1941.317
Marks:
signature: lower left: "Eugene"
Gallery Label:
The subject was a famous English actor, who first appeared on the stage in Edinburgh in 1857-59. He is represented in this portrait in the costume for one of his roles.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1900
eMuseum Object ID:
343
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
U.S. Cruiser "Chicago" in New York Harbor
Classification:
Highlight:
Not promoted
Date:
ca. 1885
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 22 x 36 in. ( 55.9 x 91.4 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of Adelaide Milton de Groot
Object Number:
1941.362
Gallery Label:
The general feeling of this painting would indicate its delineation by Jacobsen, there are stylistic aspects that were somewhat atypical of his work.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1885
eMuseum Object ID:
342
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Mrs. J. Phillip Schmand (1874-1968)
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1895-1900
Medium:
Oil on canvas mounted on masonite
Dimensions:
Overall: 20 3/4 x 7 3/4 in. ( 52.7 x 19.7 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of Mrs. J. Phillip Schmand
Object Number:
1943.279
Gallery Label:
Wilhelmine Joan Steeg was the daughter of Francis Steeg and Emma A. (Scheidweiler) Steeg of New York. She married J. Phillip Schmand (1871-1942) on December 27, 1911. In 1943 Mrs. Schmand, who was an associate member of N-YHS from that year until her death, gave the Society a number of portraits by her husband who had died the year before; among these were five of herself.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1900
eMuseum Object ID:
341
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Herbert Hoover (1874-1964)
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1941
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 30 x 25 in. ( 76.2 x 63.5 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of George A. Zabriskie
Object Number:
1941.925
Gallery Label:
This portrait was painted to add to the Society's set of presidential portraits and commissioned by George A. Zabriskie.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1941
eMuseum Object ID:
340
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Landscape with Cattle
Classification:
Date:
1882-1883
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 23 x 33 1/4 in. ( 58.4 x 84.5 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of Miss Harriet MacMartin Richards
Object Number:
1942.262
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1883
eMuseum Object ID:
338
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Steamboat "Broadway"
Classification:
Date:
1858
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 33 x 56 1/4 x 1 in. ( 83.8 x 142.9 x 2.5 cm )
Description:
In the background is the steamboat Metamora.
Credit Line:
Gift of Samuel Verplanck Hoffman
Object Number:
1934.108
Gallery Label:
This painting was purchased by the Society in 1934 from the collection of C. K. Johnson.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1858
eMuseum Object ID:
321
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
John Paradise (1783-1833)
Classification:
Date:
n.d.
Medium:
Oil on wood panel
Dimensions:
Overall: 33 x 24 3/4 in. ( 83.8 x 62.9 cm )
Credit Line:
Bequest of Mrs. Thomas F. Paradise
Object Number:
1970.58
Gallery Label:
The subject was born in Hunterdon County, New Jersey, and as a youth was apprenticed to a saddlemaker. At the age of eighteen he decided to become a painter and went to Philadelphia, studying briefly with Denis A. Volozan. By 1810 he had established his studio in New York, where it was to remain the rest of his life. Paradise was one of the founders of the National Academy of Design.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
0
eMuseum Object ID:
292
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Mrs. John Paradise
Classification:
Date:
n.d.
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 30 x 24 in. ( 76.2 x 61 cm )
Credit Line:
Bequest of Mrs. Thomas F. Paradise
Object Number:
1970.59
Gallery Label:
Elizabeth Stout married John Paradise around 1805.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
0
eMuseum Object ID:
289
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Mrs. James Benedict
Classification:
Medium:
oil on linen
Dimensions:
Overall: 31 x 25 x 1 in. ( 78.7 x 63.5 x 2.5 cm )
Object Number:
1981.2
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
0
eMuseum Object ID:
288
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Mrs. Theodore Dwight, Jr. (1805-1870)
Classification:
Date:
1828
Medium:
Oil on composition board
Dimensions:
Overall: 30 3/4 x 24 in. ( 78.1 x 61 cm )
Credit Line:
Bequest of Isabel Stuart Ferris
Object Number:
1970.63
Gallery Label:
Eleanor Boyd, daughter of Samuel Boyd, a New York lawyer, and Eliza (Pierson) Boyd of Newark, New Jersey, married Theodore Dwight, Jr., on April 24, 1827.
Bibliography:
Sizer, Theodore, The Works of Colonel John Trumbull: Artist of the American Revolution, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1967, p. 30.
Catalogue of American Portraits in The New-York Historical Society, New Haven: Yale University Press, Vol. 1, 1974, p. 243.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1828
eMuseum Object ID:
287
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
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