Matthias Bloodgood (1802-1890)
Classification:
Date:
1858(?)
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 23 1/2 x 19 1/2 in. ( 59.7 x 49.5 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of the Family of Matthias Bloodgood
Object Number:
1909.17
Marks:
date: at right: "1858[?]"
Gallery Label:
Matthias Bloodgood was the son of William Bloodgood and Doziah (Freeman) Bloodgood. A native of New Jersey, he moved to New York at the age of seventeen to work as a mason and a builder, and participated in the construction of many well-known buildings, including the Dutch Reformed Church and the People's Bank. Bloodgood was a director of the People's Bank and of the People's Fire Insurance Co., president of the Mechanics and Traders Society, and a member of the New-York Historical Society.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1858
eMuseum Object ID:
41510
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
George Bliss (1830-1897)
Classification:
Date:
1891
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 27 x 22 in. ( 68.6 x 55.9 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of John J. Lenehan
Object Number:
1936.489
Marks:
signature and date: upper left: "Franklin Tuttle / 1891"
Gallery Label:
A native of Massachusetts, Bliss graduated from Harvard in 1851, studied law in Springfield, Mass., and was admitted to the New York bar in 1857. During the Civil War he was a paymaster for the state of New York with the rank of colonel. In 1872 he was appointed U.S. district attorney for the southern district of New York.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1891
eMuseum Object ID:
41509
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Tugboat "Oliver M. Pettit"
Classification:
Date:
1857
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 28 x 48 in. ( 71.1 x 121.9 cm )
Credit Line:
Purchase
Object Number:
1926.76
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1857
eMuseum Object ID:
41499
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Andrew Jackson (1767-1845)
Classification:
Date:
1835
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 30 x 25 in. ( 76.2 x 63.5 cm )
Framed: 40 1/4 in. × 35 in. × 4 1/4 in. (102.2 × 88.9 × 10.8 cm)
Credit Line:
Gift of The New-York Gallery of the Fine Arts
Object Number:
1858.11
Gallery Label:
This portrait was originally painted for Luman Reed and formed part of his fine collection before it went to the New York Gallery of Fine Arts. Reed had commissioned Durand to paint portraits of all seven presidents of the United States, which the artist either copied from earlier portraits or, if possible, painted from life. This one was painted from life.
Provenance:
Luman Reed, d. 1836; Mrs. Luman Reed, New York, 1836-44; New-York Gallery of the Fine Arts, 1844-58.
Bibliography:
Clark, Lewis Gaylord, ed., "Editor's Table," The Knickerbocker, June 1835, pp. 550-6.
"Exhibition of the National Academy," Morning Courier and New-York Enquirer, Vol. 8, #2433, May 8, 1835, col. 2, p. 2.
Morris, G. P., ed., "The Fine Arts: Exhibition of the National Academy of Design," The New-York Mirror, A Weekly Journal, Devoted to Literature and the Fine Arts, Vol. XII, no. 47, May 23, 1835 p. 371.
Sheldon, G. W., American Painters: With Eighty-Three Examples of their Work Engraved on Wood, New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1879, p. 129-30.
Harpers New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 66, no. 396, May 1883, p. 860.
Durand, John, The Life and Times of Asher B. Durand, New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1894, pp. 106-15.
"Pictures by Durand," The New York Times, April 26, 1903, p. 34.
Isham, Samuel, The History of American Painting, New York: The Macmillan Company, 1905, p. 218.
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. 38-41.
Sweet. Frederick A., The Hudson River School and the Early American Landscape Tradition, Chicago: 1945, p. 43.
Sears, Clara Endicott, Highlights Among the Hudson River Artists, Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1947, p. 41.
Vail, R. W., Knickerbocker Birthday: A Sesqui Centennial History of The New-York Historical Society 1804-1954, New York: The New-York Historical Society, 1954, pp. 383-4.
Vail, R. W., "A Memorial Meeting for President Jackson," The New-York Historical Society Quarterly, Vol. XXXVIII, no. 3, July 1954, p. 245.
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.
Caldwell, John S., Asher B. Durand's Travels in Europe, 1840-1841 and their Role in his Artistic Development, Submitted to Hunter College, 1973, p. 45.
Catalogue of American Portraits in The New-York Historical Society, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1974, Vol. 1, p. 386.
Lassiter, Barbara Babcock, American Wilderness: The Hudson River School of Painting, Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1977, pp. 36-7.
Brown, Milton W., Hunter, Sam, Jacobus, John, Rosenblum, Naomi, Sokol, David M., American Art: Painting-Sculpture-Architecture-Decorative Arts-Photography, New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1979, p. 196.
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.
Vedder, Lee A. "Nineteenth-century American paintings." The Magazine Antiques 167 (2005): 146-155.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1835
eMuseum Object ID:
41494
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
James Robberson Iselton (ca. 1815-ca. 1865)
Classification:
Highlight:
Not promoted
Date:
1858
Medium:
Oil on academy board
Dimensions:
Overall: 12 1/2 x 10 1/2 in. ( 31.8 x 26.7 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of George A. Zabriskie
Object Number:
1947.348
Marks:
signature and date: lower left: "W. R. Miller / 1858"
Gallery Label:
James R. Iselton is listed in New York directories from 1838 to 1863 as a tailor and hatter. From 1852 through 1864 his home address is given as 1 Perry Street. William Rickarby Miller, the artist of this portrait, also lived at 1 Perry Street, from 1851 to 1875. Miller apparently named his son, Thomas Iselton, after the subject.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1858
eMuseum Object ID:
41492
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
William Irvine (1741-1804)
Classification:
Date:
n.d.
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 30 1/4 x 25 in. ( 76.8 x 63.5 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of William A. Irvine
Object Number:
1865.3
Gallery Label:
Irvine was a delegate to the Continental Congress which met in New York in 1786-88. While there his portrait was painted by Robert Edge Pine, who had come to America from England in 1784. Lambdin, one of the popular portraitists of Philadelphia between ca. 1840 and 1870, based his portrait of Irvine on Pine's late eighteenth-century work. Irvine is shown wearing the uniform of the Continental Army; the badge of the Society of the Cincinnati hangs from his left lapel.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
0
eMuseum Object ID:
41490
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Robert Green Ingersoll (1833-1899) with His Grandchildren
Classification:
Highlight:
Not promoted
Date:
1898
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
canvas: 50 x 40 in. ( 127 x 101.6 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of Mrs. Sherman D. Wakefield (Eva Ingersoll Brown) and Robert Ingersoll Brown
Object Number:
1946.299
Marks:
Signed and dated lower left: "Lilly M. Spencer / Decemb, 1898"
Gallery Label:
Robert Green Ingersoll was a noted lawyer, lecturer and author. He was born in Dresden, New York, grew up in the Midwest, and made his home again in New York after 1885. He appears in this portrait with his grandchildren, Robert G. Ingersoll Brown (ca. 1894-1968) and Eva Ingersoll Brown (1891-1970), children of Eva Ingersoll and Walston Brown.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1898
eMuseum Object ID:
41488
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Nicholas Fish (1758-1833)
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1835
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 30 x 25 in. ( 76.2 x 63.5 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of The New-York Gallery of the Fine Arts
Object Number:
1858.76
Marks:
signature: on back: "From the original of H. Inman by J. H. Shegogue"
Gallery Label:
Nicholas Fish enlisted as a lieutenant in the Continental Army, and by the end of Revolutinary War had risen to the rank of lieutenant colonel. He later became president of the New York Society of the Cincinnati. He was a friend of George Washington, Lafayette and Alexander Hamilton, and served as executor of the latter's estate. This portrait is based on an original exhibited by Henry Inman at the National Academy of Design in 1829.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1835
eMuseum Object ID:
41486
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
The Rejected Suitor
Classification:
Date:
19th century
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 39 5/8 x 32 1/4 x 7/8 in. ( 100.6 x 81.9 x 2.2 cm )
Credit Line:
The Robert L. Stuart Collection, the gift of his widow Mrs. Mary Stuart
Object Number:
S-154
Marks:
inscriptions: Signed lower right: VBrozik
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
0
eMuseum Object ID:
41485
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Hamilton Fish (1808-1893)
Classification:
Date:
1914
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 30 1/4 x 25 in. ( 76.8 x 63.5 cm )
Credit Line:
Purchase, The Louis Durr Fund
Object Number:
1914.5
Marks:
signature and date: lower right: "copied freely / by A. G. Heaton 1914"
Gallery Label:
Hamilton Fish was elected as a Whig to Congress, the governorship of New York (1849-50), and the U.S. Senate (1851-57). He later served as secretary of state under President Grant. From 1867 to 1869 Fish served as president of The New-York Historical Society and was its vice-president from 1881 to 1888. The artist based this portrait on an original by Daniel Huntington. As Fish appears to be about 55 years old in the portrait, a date of around 1860 is likely for the original.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1914
eMuseum Object ID:
41484
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
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