Edward Pillow (b. 1762)
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1790
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 12 1/4 x 10 in. ( 31.1 x 25.4 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of Isabella Vaché Cox
Object Number:
1935.155
Gallery Label:
The subject was a resident of Canterbury, England, and the husband of Maria (Cooper) Pillow. They were the parents of Frances Pillow (1798-1854) who was married to Henry Pilcher in Canterbury in 1822. The Pilchers 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:
42006
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Franklin Pierce (1804-1869)
Classification:
Date:
1853
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 27 x 22 in. ( 68.6 x 55.9 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of Mrs. Frances M. Gibson
Object Number:
1912.2
Marks:
signature and date: at right: "G.P.A. Healy 1853"
Gallery Label:
Franklin Pierce was elected the fourteenth president of the United States in 1852 and served from 1853 to 1857. The Society's portrait is a replica of Healy's original portrait of the newly elected president, which was placed in the White House during Pierce's tenure and is now in the National Gallery, Washington, D.C.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1853
eMuseum Object ID:
42005
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Benjamin Pierce (1757-1839)
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1825
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 30 x 25 1/4 in. ( 76.2 x 64.1 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of Mrs. Marion L. (Benham) Dielman
Object Number:
1939.537
Gallery Label:
The subject, the son of Benjamin and Elizabeth (Merrill) Pierce, was born and raised in Chelmsford, Massachusetts. He served in the Continental Army and fought at Bunker Hill. He and his second wife, Anna Kendrick, whom he married in 1790, were the parents of Franklin Pierce, fourteenth president of the United States. The elder Pierce also held political offices, including that of governor of the state of New Hampshire. His portrait was a gift to the Society from his great-granddaughter.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1825
eMuseum Object ID:
42004
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William Phillips (1731-1781)
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1760-1762
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 11 3/4 x 9 3/8 in. ( 29.8 x 23.8 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of the Heirs of Hall Park McCullough
Object Number:
1971.119
Gallery Label:
Phillips was a British major general who commanded a regiment of the Royal Artillery under General John Burgoyne at the Battle of Saratoga. He led the retreat from Saratoga, and was taken as a prisoner of war and later exchanged for the American general Benjamin Lincoln who was captured at Charleston, South Carolina. Phillips then joined the British forces under General Sir Henry Clinton and subsequently campaigned in Rhode Island and in Virginia where he contracted a fever from which he died.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1762
eMuseum Object ID:
42001
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Reverend George Phillips (1664-1739)
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1725-1735
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 30 1/8 x 25 1/4 in. ( 76.5 x 64.1 cm )
Credit Line:
Bequest of Waldron Phoenix Belknap, Jr.
Object Number:
1950.238
Gallery Label:
The subject, son of the Rev. Samuel Phillips (1625-96) and his wife, Sarah Appleton of Rowley, Massachusetts, followed his father's profession after graduating from Harvard in 1686. He held ministries in Brookfield, Massachusetts, Suffield, Connecticut, and Jamaica, Long Island.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1735
eMuseum Object ID:
42000
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Susannah Philipse (?)
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1750
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 29 1/2 x 24 in. ( 74.9 x 61 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of Elizabeth Richard
Object Number:
1873.3
Gallery Label:
Susannah was the daughter of Frederick Philipse II and his wife Joanna and she was the sister of Frederick III. She married Colonel Beverly Robinson of the British army, and the young couple settled on the estate on the Hudson River which she inherited from her father. This land, like that of the Philipse Manor, was confiscated at the time of the Revolution when the Philipses remained loyal to the crown.
Bibliography:
Catalogue of American Portraits in The New-York Historical Society, New Haven: Yale University Press, Vol. II, 1974, p. 621.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1750
eMuseum Object ID:
41998
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Frederick Philipse III (?)
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1750
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 29 1/2 x 24 in. ( 74.9 x 61 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of Elizabeth Richard
Object Number:
1873.1
Gallery Label:
The subject of this portrait is said to be Frederick Philipse III (1720-85), the son of Frederick II and Joanna (Brockholst) Philipse. Frederick III, the third lord of the manor, was educated at King's College (now Columbia) in New York and after inheriting his father's lands in 1751 served as a member of the Assembly. He sided with the British in the Revolution, so he went to prison and his lands were confiscated and eventually divided and sold.
Bibliography:
Logan, Eleanor, "Portraits of our Fathers," American Collector. The Magazine for Antiques Collectors and Dealers, Vol. XII, July, 1943, no. 6, pp. 6-7.
Catalogue of American Portraits in The New-York Historical Society, New Haven: Yale University Press, Vol. II, 1974, p. 620.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1750
eMuseum Object ID:
41997
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
John H. Moore (1846-1848)
Classification:
Date:
1848
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 23 x 19 in. ( 58.4 x 48.3 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of Helen Moore Cross
Object Number:
1934.11
Marks:
signature and date: on back: "Painted by Abel Buel Moore 1848"
Gallery Label:
The subject was the only son of Abel Buel Moore, who was active as a portrait painter in New York State in the mid-1800s. The portrait, a gift to the Society from the artist's granddaughter, was painted from memory after the child's death.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1848
eMuseum Object ID:
41980
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
James Monroe (1758-1831)
Classification:
Date:
1835
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 30 1/4 x 25 1/4 in. ( 76.8 x 64.1 cm )
frame: 40 3/8 x 35 1/2 x 4 1/4 in. ( 102.6 x 90.2 x 10.8 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of The New-York Gallery of the Fine Arts
Object Number:
1858.8
Gallery Label:
Durand made this copy of Gilbert Stuart's "Monroe" at the commission of Luman Reed as one of a set of portraits of the first seven presidents of the United States.
Provenance:
Luman Reed, d. 1836; Mrs. Luman Reed, New York, 1836-44; New-York Gallery of the Fine Arts, 1844-58.
Bibliography:
"Our Pigeon-Holes," Aristidean: A Magazine of Reviews, Politics and Light Literature, March 1845, p. 79.
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, p. 195, 621.
"Pictures by Durand," The New York Times, April 26, 1903, p. 34.
Tolman, Ruel P., "Asher Brown Durand," Art in America, vol. 11, no. 4, June 1923, pp. 196-200.
Sherman, Frederic Fairchild, Early American Portraiture, New York: Privately Printed, 1930, pp. 38-40.
Lawall, David B., Asher Brown Durand: His Art and Art Theory in Relation to his Times, Submitted to Princeton University in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy, March 1966, pp. 57, 140-159, 192-4, 616.
Catalogue of American Portraits in The New-York Historical Society, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1974, Vol. 2, pp. 546-7.
Lassiter, Barbara Babcock, American Wilderness: The Hudson River School of Painting, Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1977, pp. 36-7.
Foshay, Ella M., Luman Reed's Picture Gallery: Pioneer Collection of American Art, New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1990, pp. 19, 30-1, 46-8, 61-2, 141-5, 204-5.
Ferber, Linda S., ed., "Asher B. Durand, American Landscape Painter," Kindred Spirits Asher B. Durand and the American Landscape, Brooklyn Museum, 2007, pp. 70-1, 81, 130, 217.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1835
eMuseum Object ID:
41979
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
John Christopher Kunze, D.D. (1744-1807)
Classification:
Highlight:
Not promoted
Date:
1818
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 30 x 25 in. ( 76.2 x 63.5 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of members of the family of the subject
Object Number:
1818.1
Gallery Label:
A Lutheran clergyman and a professor of Oriental languages at Columbia College, the subject came to America in 1770 from his native Saxony. He became a member of The New-York Historical Society in 1804. This portrait of him is a replica of one painted by Jarvis about 1805, which was in the possession of Mrs. John Christopher Kunze in 1818.
Bibliography:
Catalogue of the Museum and Gallery of Art of The New-York Historical Society, New York, The New-York Historical Society, 1862, p. 3.
Catalogue of the Gallery of Art of The New York Historical Society, New York: The New-York Historical Society, 1915, p. 16.
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. 66.
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. 174.
Dickson, Harold E., John Wesley Jarvis: American Painter, 1780-1840, New York: The New-York Historical Society, 1949, pp. ix, 298, 356.
Catalogue of American Portraits in The New-York Historical Society, Vol. 2, New York: The New-York Historical Society, 1974, pp. 432-3.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1818
eMuseum Object ID:
41975
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
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