Ulysses Simpson Grant (1822-1885)
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1944
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:
1944.351
Marks:
signature: upper left: "Rittenberg"
Gallery Label:
This is one of several portraits of U.S. presidents commissioned from Rittenberg by the donor to fill in the gaps of presidential portraits owned by the Society.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1944
eMuseum Object ID:
41714
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John Hodges Graham (1794-1878)
Classification:
Date:
1839
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 36 x 29 in. ( 91.4 x 73.7 cm )
Credit Line:
Bequest of Cornelia Graham Brett
Object Number:
1911.1
Marks:
signature: lower left: "W. H. Powell"
Gallery Label:
Captain Graham, the son of John Andrew and Rachel Freeman (Hodges) Graham, was born in Rutland, Vermont. He enlisted in the navy at sixteen and saw action on Lake Ontario in the War of 1812. Graham retired from the navy in 1855 and was later made a commodore. His portrait was a gift to the Society from his niece.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1839
eMuseum Object ID:
41713
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Mrs. William Gracie (1795-1819)
Classification:
Date:
1816-1819
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
image: 30 x 24 in. ( 76.2 x 61 cm )
Credit Line:
Bequest of George Gibbs
Object Number:
1940.486
Marks:
inscriptions: inscribed on back: Mrs. Elizabeth Wolcott Gracie/Great-Aunt/John Trumbull.
Gallery Label:
Elizabeth Stoughton Wolcott was the daughter of Oliver Wolcott, Jr., governor of Connecticut, and Elizabeth (Stoughton) Wolcott. She was married on July 2, 1813, to William Gracie, son of Archibald Gracie (1755-1829), builder of Gracie Mansion. John Trumbull, a friend of the family, probably painted the subject from life sometime between his return to New York from England in 1816 and her death in 1819. The portrait was a gift to the Society from her grandnephew.
Bibliography:
Sizer, Theodore, The Works of Colonel John Trumbull: Artist of the American Revolution, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1967, p. 35.
Catalogue of American Portraits in The New-York Historical Society, New Haven: Yale University Press, Vol. 1, 1974, pp. 299-300.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1819
eMuseum Object ID:
41712
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Archibald Gracie, Jr. (1795-1865)
Classification:
Date:
1817
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
canvas: 26 x 21 in. ( 66 x 53.3 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of John Fiske in memory of his mother, Margaret Gracie Fiske
Object Number:
1957.119
Gallery Label:
Born in New York, the subject was the son of Archibald Gracie (1755-1829) and Ester (Rogers) Gracie. He became a merchant in Mobile, Alabama, and married Elizabeth Davidson Bethune of North Carolina. When the Civil War broke out he remained loyal to the North, although his son Archibald (b. 1832) distinguished himself as a Confederate soldier before being killed at the battle of Petersburg.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1817
eMuseum Object ID:
41711
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Samuel Gompers (1850-1924)
Classification:
Date:
1919
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 47 x 38 in. ( 119.4 x 96.5 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of the artist
Object Number:
1946.290
Marks:
signature and date: lower right: "Leopold Seyffert / 1919"
Gallery Label:
Samuel Gompers was born in London, the son of Solomon and Sarah (Rood) Gompers; he came to the United States as a boy and was naturalized in 1872. Associated with labor unions from an early age, and was elected the first president of the American Federation of Labor in 1886 and served as its spokesman until his death.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1919
eMuseum Object ID:
41709
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DeWitt Clinton (1769-1828)
Classification:
Date:
1824
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 49 1/2 x 40 in. ( 125.7 x 101.6 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of Nelson Robinson
Object Number:
1909.9
Gallery Label:
This portrait was painted around the time of the opening of the famous upstate canal system, one of Clinton's most notable achievements. One of the artist's finest portraits, it was exhibited at the American Academy of Fine Arts, of which Clinton had been president, in 1824.
Bibliography:
Herring, James, and Longacre, James B., The National Portrait Gallery of Distinguished Americans, New York: Monson Bancroft and Philadelphia: Henry Perkins, Vol. II, 1835, n.p.
Campbell, William W., The Life and Writings of De Witt Clinton, New York: Baker and Scribner, 1849, frontispiece, p. vii.
Thorpe, T.B., "New-York Artists Fifty Years Ago," Appletons' Journal, No. 165, Vol. VII, May 25, 1872, pp. 572-5.
Lamb, Martha J., "The Ingham Portrait of De Witt Clinton," Magazine of American History, Vol. XXVII, No. 5, May, 1892, pp. 321-24.
California State Board of Education, Introductory History of the United States, Sacramento: State of California, 1905, p. 278.
New-York Historical Society, Colonial Dames of America; Hudson-Fulton Celebration Commission, Official Robert Fulton Exhibition of the Hudson-Fulton Commission: The New York Historical Society in Cooperation with The Colonial Dames of America, New York: The New-York Historical Society, 1909, pp. 9-10.
Catalogue of the Gallery of Art of The New-York Historical Society, New York: The New-York Historical Society, 1915, p. 18.
Dunlap, William, A History of the Rise and Progress of the Arts of Design in the United States, Boston: C.E. Goodspeed & Co., 1918, p. 277.
Kelby, William, Notes on American Artists 1754-1820, New York: The New-York Historical Society, 1922, p. 61.
Catalogue of American Portraits in the New-York Historical Society, Vol. 1. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1941, p. 54.
Anderson, Wm. H.W., Á $27 Billion Dollar Portrait," The Southern Planter, August, 1958, p. 12.
Catalogue of American Portraits in the New-York Historical Society, no. 1768, Vol. 1, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1974, p. 351-7.
Caldwell, John and Roque, Oswaldo Rodriguez, American Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Vol. I, A Catalogue of Works by Artists Born by 1815, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1994, pp. 396-7.
Cornog, Evan, The Birth of Empire: De Witt Clinton and the American Experience, 1769-1828, New York: Oxford University Press, 1998, n.p.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1824
eMuseum Object ID:
41708
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Isaac Chauncey (1772-1840)
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1810-1812
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 30 x 25 in. ( 76.2 x 63.5 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of Clarence Macy Chauncey
Object Number:
1942.104
Gallery Label:
Isaac Chauncey was commissioned lieutenant in the newly formed U.S. navy in 1798, participated in several engagements in the War of 1812, commanded the Mediterranean Squadron from 1816 to 1818, and assisted in negotiations of a treaty with Algiers. He later served on the Board of Navy Commissioners and was commandant of the New York Navy Yard. This the earliest of several known portraits of Commodore Chauncey. Among the later portraits are works by Gilbert Stuart and John Wesley Jarvis.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1812
eMuseum Object ID:
41707
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Harry Woodburn Chase (1883-1955)
Classification:
Date:
1935
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 50 x 40 in. ( 127 x 101.6 cm )
Credit Line:
Painted from life for the Society
Object Number:
1935.151
Gallery Label:
Harry Woodburn Chase was chancellor of New York University from 1933 to 1951, a member of the board of directors of the Metropolitan Opera Association, and a trustee of several New York institutions. Lockman had already given a dozen of his portraits of prominent Americans to the Society, of which he was a member, when he painted this likeness of Chase.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1935
eMuseum Object ID:
41705
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John W. Chambers (1815-1893)
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1870
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 30 x 25 in. ( 76.2 x 63.5 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of the American Institute of the City of New York
Object Number:
1929.20
Marks:
signature: lower right: "T. Hicks, N.A."
Gallery Label:
From 1834 until his death Chambers was associated with the American Institute of the City of New York, the mission of which was "to encourage and promote industry throughout the Union by the bestowal of rewards and other benefits on persons excelling in agriculture, commerce, manufactures, and the arts."
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1870
eMuseum Object ID:
41704
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John W. Casilear (1811-1893)
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1840
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 30 x 24 1/2 in. ( 76.2 x 62.2 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of Mrs. Lucy M. Durand Woodman
Object Number:
1907.1
Inscriptions:
stencil on stretcher: '369'; stencil on canvas reverse: 'PREPARED BY / ROBERTSON / 51 LONG ACRE LONDON,' and 'R&M' and in a block format "Y748 6"
Gallery Label:
Born in New York, John William Casilear was the son of John and Rebecca (Stevens) Casilear. He began his career as an apprentice to the engraver Peter Maverick and later studied with Asher B. Durand. Casilear and Durand became close friends, and in 1840, about the time the portrait was painted, they traveled together to Europe with two other landscape painters, John F. Kensett and Thomas Rossiter, to study the work of the old masters.
Bibliography:
Catalogue of the Gallery of Art of The New York Historical Society, New York: Printed for the Society, 1915, p. 42.
Sherman, Frederic Fairchild, Early American Portraiture, New York: Privately Printed, 1930, pp. 38-41.
Flexner, James Thomas, That Wilder Image: The Painting of America's Native School from Thomas Cole to Winslow Homer, Boston: Little, Brown & Company, 1962, pp. 64-5.
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. 85, 143-7, 610-6,
Catalogue of American Portraits in The New-York Historical Society, New Haven: Yale University Press, Vol. 1, 1974, pp. 134-5.
Ferber, Linda S., ed., Kindred Spirits Asher B. Durand and the American Landscape, Brooklyn Museum, 2007, p. 88.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1840
eMuseum Object ID:
41702
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
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