Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1835
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
canvas: 30 1/4 x 25 in. ( 76.8 x 63.5 cm )
frame: 40 x 35 x 4 in. ( 101.6 x 88.9 x 10.2 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of The New-York Gallery of the Fine Arts
Object Number:
1858.9
Gallery Label:
About 1835 Luman Reed commissioned Asher B. Durand to paint two sets of portraits of the first seven presidents of the United States. One set was immediately given to the Museum and Library of the Brooklyn Navy Yard; after Reed's death his own set went to the New York Gallery of Fine Arts and then to The New-York Historical Society.
Provenance:
Luman Reed, d. 1836; Mrs. Luman Reed, New York, 1836-44; New-York Gallery of the Fine Arts, 1844-58.
Bibliography:
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.
Executor's Sale: Studies in Oil by Asher B. Durand, N.A., Deceased, Ortgies' Art Gallery, New York, April 13 and 14, 1887, p. 30, no. 371.
"Pictures by Durand," The New York Times, April 26, 1903, p. 34.
Sherman, Frederic Fairchild, Early American Portraiture, New York: Privately Printed, 1930, pp. 38-41.
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. 399-400.
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, 84, 141-5, 208-9.
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, 207, 217.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1835
eMuseum Object ID:
41587
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Joseph Jefferson (1829-1905)
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1894
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 54 x 37 in. ( 137.2 x 94 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of F. Lorenz Smith in memory of his brother, the artist
Object Number:
1941.320
Gallery Label:
A native of Philadelphia, this well-known actor made his stage debut in Washington at the age of four. In 1856 he appeared on the New York stage a seasoned and accomplished actor with the company of Laura Keene and thereafter his success was assured. In London one of his greatest triumphs was in the title role of Boucicault's "Rip Van Winkle" in 1865. He brought it to New York's Olympic Theatre the following year with equal success. In this portrait, he is depicted in that role.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1894
eMuseum Object ID:
41585
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Joseph Jefferson (1829-1905)
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1870-1880
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 18 x 14 1/8 in. ( 45.7 x 35.9 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of Forsyth Wickes
Object Number:
1939.554
Marks:
signature: lower right: "A. Jahn"
Gallery Label:
A native of Philadelphia, this well-known actor made his stage debut in Washington at the age of four. In 1856 he appeared on the New York stage a seasoned and accomplished actor with the company of Laura Keene and thereafter his success was assured. In London one of his greatest triumphs was in the title role of Boucicault's "Rip Van Winkle" in 1865. He brought it to New York's Olympic Theatre the following year with equal success. In this portrait, he is depicted in that role.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1880
eMuseum Object ID:
41586
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Joseph Jefferson (1829-1905)
Classification:
Date:
1894
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 48 1/4 x 34 in. ( 122.6 x 86.4 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of F. Lorenz Smith in memory of his brother, the artist
Object Number:
1941.316
Marks:
signature and date: lower left: "Eugene / 'Crows Nest' / 1894"
Gallery Label:
A native of Philadelphia, this well-known actor made his stage debut in Washington at the age of four. In 1856 he appeared on the New York stage a seasoned and accomplished actor with the company of Laura Keene and thereafter his success was assured. In London one of his greatest triumphs was in the title role of Boucicault's "Rip Van Winkle" in 1865. He brought it to New York's Olympic Theatre the following year with equal success. In this portrait, he is depicted in that role.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1894
eMuseum Object ID:
41584
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
The Reverend William Jay (1769-1853)
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1849-1853
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 24 x 20 in. ( 61 x 50.8 cm )
Credit Line:
Bequest of Reginald Pelham Bolton
Object Number:
1942.351
Gallery Label:
The subject, the only son of William and Sarah Jay, was born at Tilsbury, England, and ordained in 1791. The artist was his grandson and the donor his great-grandson.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1853
eMuseum Object ID:
41583
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Louise Hall Pintard Servoss
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1830
Medium:
Framed oil paint on panel
Dimensions:
Framed: 39 x 34 x 4 in. (99.1 x 86.4 x 10.2 cm)
Credit Line:
Gift of Mr. Mills N. Ripley, Jr. & Anne C. Ripley
Object Number:
1987.12
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1830
eMuseum Object ID:
41581
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Blanche Hendricks (1852-1915)
Classification:
Medium:
Oil on linen
Dimensions:
20 x 17 x 1 in.
Credit Line:
Bequest of Ethel H. Frank
Object Number:
1973.27
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
0
eMuseum Object ID:
41580
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
John Adam Milderberger (ca. 1775-1858)
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1835
Medium:
Oil on wood panel
Dimensions:
Overall: 27 x 36 in. ( 68.6 x 91.4 cm )
Credit Line:
Bequest of Mrs. Berger Glover
Object Number:
1963.2
Marks:
inscription: on letter: "John A. Milderberger / corner Hammond and / Fourth Street / New York"
Gallery Label:
The subject conducted a soap and candle store and candle manufactory at 23 Nassau Street for many years.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1835
eMuseum Object ID:
41579
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
1944.3
Classification:
Medium:
Oil on linen
Dimensions:
29 x 23 x 1 in.
Object Number:
1944.3
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
0
eMuseum Object ID:
41578
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Elbert Henry Gray (1846-1927)
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1910
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 40 x 32 in. ( 101.6 x 81.3 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of Mrs. J. Phillip Schmand
Object Number:
1943.176
Marks:
signature: lower right: "J. Phillip Schmand"
Gallery Label:
Gray was born in Wheaton, Illinois, and graduated from Union College of Law in Chicago. Over the course of his long and successful career, he was a lawyer, banker, industrialist, and railroad executive.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1910
eMuseum Object ID:
41577
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
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