A native of Poland, the subject came to the U.S. at the age of twenty-two and became a civil engineer. He joined the Union army in 1861 and attained the rank of brigadier general. Following the war he held various government posts, the last of which was with the U.S. Customs House in New York. This portrait is based on a photograph by Gray in the Society's collection.

Kosciusko was a Polish patriot who offered his services to the cause of the American Revolution. This portrait of him was probably copied from an engraving taken from a portrait painted by Antoine Oleszczynski.

This portrait has been said to represent Frederick Philipse II (1695-1751), the son of Philip and Maria (Sparkes) Philipse, and grandson of Frederick I (1626-1702), the first lord of Philipse Manor in Yonkers, New York. Frederick II was educated in England, where he studied law. He returned to New York as a young man to assume charge of the vast lands he had inherited; for many years he sat as judge over what was almost a private domain, and also served in the Assembly from 1726-51.

Olivia Eggleston of Hartford, Connecticut, met Anson Phelps when he was establishing in that city the foundation of his industrial fortune. There were married in Hartford but lived in New York after 1815. One of the subject's daughters married Daniel James, and the companion portraits of Anson and Olivia Phelps passed down through the family until the James Foundation presented them to the Society in 1959.

A native of Connecticut, Phelps moved his metal business in 1812 from Hartford to New York where he and Elisha Peck formed the firm of Phelps, Peck and Company. In 1833 he entered into a partnership with his son-in-law, William Earl Dodge, and they created one of the most important industrial firms of the nineteenth century--Phelps, Dodge and Company.

A graduate of West Point, Pershing saw his first major action in Cuba during the Spanish-American War. Then followed tours of duty against the Moros in the Philippines (1901-03) and against Pancho Villa in Mexico (1916). It was as commander of the American Expeditionary Forces in WWI, however, that Pershing achieved his greatest fame. This portrait, in which he is pictured with his favorite horse, Jeff, was painted for the Army and Navy Club of New York.

The subject was born in Athens, Pennsylvania, the son of Captain Edward Henry Perkins, U.S.N. He came to New York in 1881 and joined the Importers and Traders National Bank. He later became associated with the Fourth National Bank and finally with the Bank of America of which he was president from 1890 until his retirement in 1920. The donor succeeded Perkins as president of the B of A.

A graduate of West Point, Pershing saw his first major action in Cuba during the Spanish-American War. Then followed tours of duty against the Moros in the Philippines (1901-03) and against Pancho Villa in Mexico (1916). It was as commander of the American Expeditionary Forces in WWI, however, that Pershing achieved his greatest fame. Lockman, a member of the Society, painted portraits of many great men in American history between the two world wars. This one remained an unfinished sketch.

The subject was born in Rahde, Hanover, Germany. He began his career in the sugar business in London, and when he immigrated to New York, in 1837, became superintendant of the Woolsey and Woolsey sugar house. In 1849 he entered the firm of Havemeyer and Moller, and he later acquired sole interest in the New-York Steam Refining Co. Moller founded the Evangelicala Lutheran Church and the Lutheran Asylum.

Mary Penfold Berrien was the second daughter of Cornelius Penfold Berrien and Elizabeth Bruen (Morris) Berrien. She married William Mitchell on June 2, 1841. Her portrait was a gift to the Society from her grandson.