John Pintard (1759-1844)
Classification:
Date:
1832
Medium:
Oil on wood panel
Dimensions:
Overall: 36 x 27 1/2 in. ( 91.4 x 69.9 cm )
Credit Line:
Purchase, The Louis Durr Fund
Object Number:
1928.1
Marks:
inscription: on back: "Portrait of John Pintard L.L.D. AE. 74"
stenciled: on back: "Waldo & Jewett 1832 New York"
Gallery Label:
The original of this portrait was painted for the American Bible Society where it may still be seen. The New-York Historical Society's replica was painted for the subject's daughter, Mrs. Richard Davidson, and was sent to her in New Orleans; the Society purchased it from John Pintard Lewis who had inherited it from his grandfather, John Pintard Davidson, eldest son of Mrs. Davidson.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1832
eMuseum Object ID:
42041
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
John Pintard (1759-1844)
Classification:
Date:
1817
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Unframed: 31 × 25 in. (78.7 × 63.5 cm)
Framed: 36 1/2 × 30 1/4 × 3 3/4 in. (92.7 × 76.8 × 9.5 cm)
Credit Line:
Commissioned from the artist by the New-York Historical Society
Object Number:
1817.3
Gallery Label:
John Pintard, the founder of The New-York Historical Society, graduated from the College of New Jersey (Princeton) with the class of 1776 and subsequently joined his uncle's mercantile business. However, he soon entered the China and East India trade for himself, making a considerable fortune which was totally lost in the market crash of 1792. Thereafter he held the office of secretary of the Mutual Assurance Company of New York and subsequently that of president of the Bank of Savings.
Provenance:
Commissioned from the artist by the New-York Historical Society, 1817.
Bibliography:
Sizer, Theodore, The Works of Colonel John Trumbull: Artist of the American Revolution, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1967, pp. 11, 59.
Catalogue of American Portraits in The New-York Historical Society, New Haven: Yale University Press, Vol. 2, 1974, pp. 628-9.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1817
eMuseum Object ID:
42040
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William Pinkney (?)
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1815-1820
Medium:
Oil on wood panel
Dimensions:
Overall: 24 x 20 in. ( 61 x 50.8 cm )
Credit Line:
Purchase, The Louis Durr Fund
Object Number:
1938.310
Gallery Label:
A native of Maryland, William Pinkney (1764-1822) served in the state legislature from 1788 to 1792 and later served as attorney general of Maryland. In 1807 he was appointed American minister to England, a position he occupied until 1811, when he became U.S. attorney general. He briefly held the offices of minister to Russia and to Naples and was elected to the U.S. Senate in the last decade of his life.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1820
eMuseum Object ID:
42038
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Mrs. Edward Pillow (b. 1762)
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1790
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 12 3/8 x 9 3/4 in. ( 31.4 x 24.8 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of Isabella Vaché Cox
Object Number:
1935.156
Gallery Label:
Maria Cooper was the sister of the mayor of Canterbury, England. She married Edward Pillow in 1784. Frances Pillow, the daughter of Edward and Maria, married Henry Pilcher in Canterbury in 1822, and they were the parents of Eliza, who became Mrs. John Vaché Cox in 1844. The donor was the subject's great-granddaughter.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1790
eMuseum Object ID:
42036
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Mrs. Jacob Morton (1767-1849)
Classification:
Date:
1833
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 30 x 25 in. ( 76.2 x 63.5 cm )
Credit Line:
Bequest of Mrs. Emily Ellison Post in memory of her parents, Charles Litchfield Ellison and Harriet E. (Morton) Ellison
Object Number:
1942.324
Marks:
inscription: on back: "painted by SFB Morse, Esqr PNA for JLM 1833"
Gallery Label:
Catharine Ludlow was the only daughter of Cary Ludlow and Hester (Lynsen) Ludlow of New York. In 1791 she was married to Jacob Morton and they occupied his family's home at 9 State Street. Her portrait was a gift to the Society from her great-granddaughter.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1833
eMuseum Object ID:
42023
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Jacob Morton (1761-1836)
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1833
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 30 x 25 in. ( 76.2 x 63.5 cm )
Credit Line:
Bequest of Mrs. Emily Ellison Post in memory of her parents, Charles Litchfield Ellison and Harriet E. (Morton) Ellison
Object Number:
1942.323
Marks:
inscription: on back (covered when relined): "Genl J. Morton / From the original of H Inman / by SFB Morse. / PNA"
Gallery Label:
The subject was the son of John Morton, who came to America with the British military forces in 1760, and Maria Sophia (Kemper) Morton of New York. He graduated from Princeton in 1778, studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1782. He was one of the original incorporators of the Free School Society of the City of New York in 1805, and served as an officer in the New York State militia. He became a member of N-YHS in 1809. His portrait was a gift to the Society from his great-granddaughter.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1833
eMuseum Object ID:
42022
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William Golden Mortimer, M.D. (1854-1933)
Classification:
Highlight:
Not promoted
Date:
ca. 1890
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 40 x 32 in. ( 101.6 x 81.3 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of Mrs. Helen Adams
Object Number:
1950.146
Marks:
signature: lower left: "W. Morgan"
Gallery Label:
The subject, a prominent New York specialist in diseases of the eye, ear, nose, and throat, received his M.D. degree from New York University in 1885. He was member of the New York Academy of Medicine, of which his maternal grandfather, James Herring, was a founder. His portrait was a gift to the Society from his daughter.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1890
eMuseum Object ID:
42021
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Robert Morris (1734-1806)
Classification:
Date:
After 1795
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 30 x 25 in. ( 76.2 x 63.5 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of Lucille de Foley in memory of Elizabeth Harrison
Object Number:
1957.43
Gallery Label:
Gilbert Stuart's original portrait of Morris was painted in Philadelphia in 1795, and after Morris's death passed into the possession of his son Thomas. Sully may have borrowed the original portrait from Thomas Morris in 1824, when he was retouching another copy of it by Bass Otis (now in the Historical Society of Pennsylvania Museum), and made his own copy at that time.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1795
eMuseum Object ID:
42017
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Robert Morris (1734-1806)
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1810
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Unframed: 29 × 24 1/2 in. (73.7 × 62.2 cm)
Framed: 36 in. × 31 1/2 in. × 3 1/4 in. (91.4 × 80 × 8.3 cm)
Credit Line:
Gift of Thomas Morris
Object Number:
1817.4
Gallery Label:
Statesman, financier, and patriot Robert Morris was born in England, was sent to live with his father in Maryland as a boy, and grew up in Philadelphia. He was an early supporter of the Revolutionary cause, served in the first Continental Congress, and was a signer of the Declaration of Independence. He served in the Pennsylvania assembly and was a U.S. senator from that state from 1789 to 1795. His portrait was a gift to the Society from his son, who inherited Stuart's 1795 original.
Bibliography:
Irving, Washington, Ed., The Analectic Magazine, Vol. V, 1815, frontispiece.
Catalogue of the Museum and Gallery of Art of The New-York Historical Society, New York, The New-York Historical Society, 1862, p. 7.
Irving, Pierre M., The Life and Letters of Washington Irving, 3 Vols., London: Richard Bentley, 1862, Vol. 1, pp. 227-9.
Tuckerman, Henry T., Book of the Artists, American Artist Life, Comprising Biographical and Critical Sketches of American Artists: Preceded by an Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of Art in America, New York: P. Putnam & Son, 1867, pp. 57, 621.
Wilson, Woodrow, A History of the American People, 5 Vols, New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 19007, Vol. III, p. 215.
Van der Weyde, William M., "John Wesley Jarvis," Americana, 7, July 1912, pp. 651-7.
Catalogue of the Gallery of Art of The New York Historical Society, New York: The New-York Historical Society, 1915, p. 20.
Morgan, John Hill, Early American Painters: Illustrated by Examples in the Collection of The New-York Historical Society, New York: The New-York Historical Society, 1921, p. 102-3.
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. 67.
Harrington, John Walker, "John Wesley Jarvis, Portraitist,´The American Magazine of Art, Vol. 8, 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. 218.
Dickson, Harold E., John Wesley Jarvis: American Painter, 1780-1840, New York: The New-York Historical Society, 1949, pp. ix, 326, 359.
Catalogue of American Portraits in The New-York Historical Society, Vol. 2, New York: The New-York Historical Society, 1974, p. 558.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1810
eMuseum Object ID:
42016
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Archibald Laidlie, D.D. (1722-1779)
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1767
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 39 x 32 in. ( 99.1 x 81.3 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of Mrs. Walter Pierson in memory of her cousin, Richard Varick Dey
Object Number:
1927.3
Gallery Label:
A native of Kelso, Scotland, Laidlie was ordained in the Church of Scotland in 1759. He accepted a call to the ministry of the Dutch Reformed Church in New York in 1763. This portrait of Dr. Laidlie was painted in New York and reproduced as a mezzotint by John Wesley Jarvis.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1767
eMuseum Object ID:
42007
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
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