Unidentified man
Classification:
Date:
1800-1820
Medium:
Ink on plaster
Dimensions:
frame: 6 x 5 1/8 x 1/2 in. ( 15.2 x 13 x 1.3 cm )
image height: 2 1/2 in. ( 6.4 cm )
Description:
Bust of male subject in left-facing profile; bronzed image on white ground; rectangular black lacquered frame with oval window.
Credit Line:
Gift of Mrs. J. Insley Blair
Object Number:
1942.565
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1820
eMuseum Object ID:
42147
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Unidentified naval officer
Classification:
Date:
1800-1820
Medium:
Ink on plaster
Dimensions:
frame: 6 x 5 x 1/2 in. ( 15.2 x 12.7 x 1.3 cm )
image height: 2 3/4 in. ( 7 cm )
Description:
Bust of male subject in uniform with epaulet; subject in right-facing profile; bronzed image on white ground; rectangular black lacquered frame with oval window.
Credit Line:
Gift of Mrs. J. Insley Blair
Object Number:
1942.564
Marks:
handwritten in pencil: on back: "T5849 C"
printed: on back: "MIERS, / PROFILE PAINTER & JEWELLER, / 111 STRAND LONDON. / opposite Exeter Change. / Executes Likenesses in Profile in a style of superior / excellence . . ."
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1820
eMuseum Object ID:
42146
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Mrs. Marshall (ca. 1807-?)
Classification:
Date:
1824
Medium:
Ink on plaster
Dimensions:
frame: 5 1/4 x 4 3/4 x 1/2 in. ( 13.3 x 12.1 x 1.3 cm )
image height: 2 3/8 in. ( 6 cm )
Description:
Bust of youthful female subject in left-facing profile; bronzed image on white ground; rectangular black lacquered frame with oval window.
Credit Line:
Gift of Mrs. J. Insley Blair
Object Number:
1942.563
Marks:
handwritten in pencil: on back: "75849 B"
handwritten in ink: on back: "Mrs. Marshall Aged 17-- / taken November 1824" and "Label 13"
printed: on back: "Miers & Field / 111, STRAND, LONDON. / opposite Exeter Change. / Profile Painters, Jewellers, Seal E
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1824
eMuseum Object ID:
42145
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Mrs. George Chapple Norton (1808-1877)
Classification:
Date:
1839
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 50 1/2 x 40 1/2 in. ( 128.3 x 102.9 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of Mrs. Samuel S. Osgood
Object Number:
1887.1
Gallery Label:
Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Sheridan was the granddaughter of Richard Brinsley Sheridan, and as a poet and novelist she became rather well known in her own day. She was married to the Honorable George Chapple Norton (d. 1875) in 1827, but it was not a happy marriage and the couple separated in 1836. The lawsuit that followed became the basis for Charles Dickens's Bardell vs. Pickwick in "The Pickwick Papers." Her writings thereafter were often devoted to issues surrounding the rights of women.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1839
eMuseum Object ID:
42142
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Thomas Satterwhite Noble (1835-1907)
Classification:
Date:
1896
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 49 1/2 x 40 in. ( 125.7 x 101.6 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of the Children of Thomas S. Noble and Mary C. Noble in their memory
Object Number:
1940.274
Marks:
signature and date: upper right: "John Ward Dunsmore 1896"
Gallery Label:
The subject, a native of Lexington, Kentucky, was a historical and portrait painter long associated with the Cincinnati Art School. John Ward Dunsmore was born near Cincinnati and studied at the art school there, probably with the subject.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1896
eMuseum Object ID:
42140
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Jeremiah Nims (1818-1842)
Classification:
Date:
1841
Medium:
Oil on cardboard
Dimensions:
Overall: 10 1/2 x 9 in. ( 26.7 x 22.9 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of Mrs. Charles A. Davis
Object Number:
X.27
Gallery Label:
This portrait was painted for Mrs. Davis, the donor. She was evidently one of Nim's patrons, for he exhibited a portrait of her at the National Academy of Design in 1841.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1841
eMuseum Object ID:
42139
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Herman Le Roy (1758-1841)
Classification:
Date:
n.d.
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 40 x 32 in. ( 101.6 x 81.3 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of the Bank of New York
Object Number:
1956.38
Gallery Label:
In the early 19th century Herman Le Roy, the founder of Le Roy, Bayard and Company, was one of the most successful and wealthy merchants in New York.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
0
eMuseum Object ID:
42138
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Mrs. Robert Lenox (1763-1843)
Classification:
Date:
1806
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 36 1/4 x 28 in. ( 92.1 x 71.1 cm )
Frame: 45 1/4 x 37 1/2 x 3 1/2 in. (114.9 x 95.3 x 8.9 cm)
Credit Line:
Bequest of Waldron Phoenix Belknap, Jr.
Object Number:
1950.226
Marks:
inscription on label: on stretcher: "Rachel Carmer / wife of Robert Lenox / painted by Trumbull"
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. The original of this portrait of her and its companion of her husband were painted by Trumbull in New York in 1805. The pair of replicas bequeathed to the Society by Mr. Belknap was painted the following year for another member of the family. Both originals now hang 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. 452-3.
Jaffe, Irma B., John Trumbull: Patriot-Artist of the American Revolution, Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1975, pp. 212, 311
Cooper, Helen A., John Trumbull: The Hand and Spirit of a Painter, New Haven: Yale University Art Gallery, 1982, p. 162.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1806
eMuseum Object ID:
42137
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Robert Lenox (1759-1839)
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1825-1830
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 9 x 6 3/4 in. ( 22.9 x 17.1 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of Mrs. Edward L. Center and R. McAllister Lloyd
Object Number:
1958.131
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. This portrait of him was probably copied by Inman from an original of 1809 by John Wesley Jarvis, with whom Inman had earlier served an apprenticeship.
Bibliography:
Bolton, Theodore, "A Catalogue of the Paintings of Henry Inman," no. 80, The Art Quarterly 3, no. 4 (Autumn 1940), p. 408.
Catalogue of American Portraits in the New-York Historical Society, no. 1768, Vol. 1, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1974, p. 451.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1830
eMuseum Object ID:
42135
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
James Lenox (1772-1839)
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1810-1815
Medium:
Oil on wood panel
Dimensions:
Overall: 28 3/8 x 23 1/8 in. ( 72.1 x 58.7 cm )
Credit Line:
Bequest of Waldron Phoenix Belknap, Jr.
Object Number:
1950.229
Marks:
label: on back: "James Lenox / brother of Robert Lenox"
Gallery Label:
James Lenox, the son of James and Elizabeth (Sproat) Lenox of Kirkcudbright, Scotland, came to America when he was about sixteen years old to join his older brother, Robert, who was by then a prosperous merchant in New York. In partnership with William Maitland he established the firm of Lenox and Maitland, merchants, in 1796. Lenox returned to Scotland in 1818 and remained at his estate at Dalskairth for the remainder of his life. Lenox was the great-great-granduncle of the donor.
Bibliography:
Dickson, Harold E., John Wesley Jarvis: American Painter, 1780-1840, New York: The New-York Historical Society, 1949, pp. 344, 422.
Phillips, John Marshall, et. al, The Waldron Phoenix Belknap, Jr. Collections of Portraits and Silver, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 1955, p. 40-1.
Catalogue of American Portraits in The New-York Historical Society, Vol. 1, New York: The New-York Historical Society, 1974, pp. 449-50.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1815
eMuseum Object ID:
42132
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
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