Benjamin Hazard Field (1814-1893)
Classification:
Date:
1875
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 36 x 29 in. ( 91.4 x 73.7 cm )
Credit Line:
Bequest of Mrs. Benjamin H. Field
Object Number:
1887.2
Marks:
signature and date: lower right: "D. Huntington / 1875"
Gallery Label:
A merchant philanthropist, Field was born in Yorktown Heights, Westchester County, New York. He was a member of The New-York Historical Society, and served as its treasurer, vice-president, and, beginning in 1885, its president. His portrait was a gift to the Society from his wife.
Bibliography:
Catalogue of American Portraits in The New-York Historical Society, New Haven: Yale University Press, Vol. 1, 1974, p. 263.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1875
eMuseum Object ID:
41482
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Reuben Eaton Fenton (1819-1885)
Classification:
Date:
1867
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 30 x 24 3/4 in. ( 76.2 x 62.9 cm )
Credit Line:
Purchase, The Louis Durr Fund
Object Number:
1942.103
Marks:
signature and date: lower left: "AWT / Albany / NY 67"
Gallery Label:
Born in Carroll, New York, Fenton was elected to Congress in 1852 and soon after became one of the organizers of the Republican party (1854); with the exception of one term he remained in Congress until 1864. Subsequently, he served two terms as governor of New York (1864-68). His political career continued in the U.S. Senate (1869-75), but he eventually lost control of his party in the state to Roscoe Conkling.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1867
eMuseum Object ID:
41481
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The Farnum Children
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1855
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 49 1/2 x 39 5/8 in. ( 125.7 x 100.6 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of Dr. Waldo B. Farnum
Object Number:
1959.80
Gallery Label:
Henry Harrison Farnum (1844-1924), Lizzie (1846-1906), and Catherine Farnum (b. 1849) were the children of Samuel Bernard Farnum. The donor, Dr. Waldo B. Farnum, was the son of Henry. The three children are standing in front of their home in Port Jervis, New York; a portion of the Delaware and Hudson Canal, which was built by their father, can be seen in the background.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1855
eMuseum Object ID:
41479
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Anthony Bleecker (1770-1827)
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1825-1850
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 30 x 25 in. ( 76.2 x 63.5 cm )
Credit Line:
Bequest of Mary Neilson Kearney
Object Number:
1965.12
Marks:
label: on stretcher: "Anthony Bleecker / Son of Anthony Lispenard Bleecker / was born in the City of New York / October 27th, 1770, died March 13th, 1827 by Jarvis"
Gallery Label:
The subject of this painting was the son of Anthony Lispenard and Mary (Noel) Bleecker, and grew up on the family estate, now marked by Bleecker Street in Greenwich Village. He was one of the founders of the New-York Historical Society. At one time the painting was attributed on stylistic grounds to John Wesley Jarvis; it is now believed to be a copy--perhaps executed as late as 1845--of the original by Dunlap in the New York Society Library.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1850
eMuseum Object ID:
41475
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Edwin Howland Blashfield (1848-1936)
Classification:
Date:
1932-33
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 50 x 40 in. ( 127 x 101.6 cm )
Description:
Blashfield, a mural and genre painter and President of the NAD from 1920-1926, is depicted as a balding, mustached man in a dar double breasted suit, high-collared shirt and blue-lavendar tie with a rosetee in his left lapel. He wears wire rimmed glasses and holds a pallette in his left hand and a paint brush in the right. He is seated, turned slightly to his left, in a blue arm chair.
Credit Line:
Painted from life for the Society
Object Number:
1933.11
Marks:
signature and date: lower left: "DeWitt M. Lockman, N.A. / 1932-33"
Gallery Label:
Edwin Blashfield, a mural and genre painter, was elected to the National Academy of Design in the late 1880s, and later served as president (1920-1926). His portrait is one of twelve portraits of eminent Americans presented by the artist to the New-York Historical Society between 1930 and 1933.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1932
eMuseum Object ID:
41473
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Cortlandt Field Bishop (1870-1935)
Classification:
Date:
1873
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Framed: 51 1/2 × 32 3/4 × 3 1/4 in. (130.8 × 83.2 × 8.3 cm)
Unframed: 44 × 25 1/2 in. (111.8 × 64.8 cm)
Credit Line:
Gift of Mrs. Cortlandt F. Bishop and Mrs. Shirley Falcke
Object Number:
1957.3
Marks:
Signed and dated upper left: "W. Bouguereau 1873"
Gallery Label:
This portrait, which depicts the subject at the age of three, was painted in Paris by one of the most celebrated French academic painters of the late nineteenth century. By 1873 he accepted portrait commissions only out of personal regard for the sitter or his family.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1873
eMuseum Object ID:
41474
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Towboat "Young America"
Classification:
Date:
1854
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 29 3/4 x 50 in. ( 75.6 x 127 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of Samuel V. Hoffman
Object Number:
1925.109
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1854
eMuseum Object ID:
41466
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Tugboat "C.P Smith"
Classification:
Date:
1854
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 28 x 48 in. ( 71.1 x 121.9 cm )
Credit Line:
Purchase
Object Number:
1924.116
Gallery Label:
Another version of this painting is located in the Mariners Museum in Newport News, Virginia.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1854
eMuseum Object ID:
41464
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Steamboat "Keyport"
Classification:
Date:
1853
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 34 x 53 in. ( 86.4 x 134.6 cm )
Description:
Credit Line:
Gift of Samuel V. Hoffman
Object Number:
1927.97
Gallery Label:
Other versions of this painting by Bard are in the Mariners Museum, Newport News, Virginia, the Monmouth County Historical Association, Freehold, New Jersey, and in a private collection in New Jersey.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1853
eMuseum Object ID:
41463
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Steamboat "Francis Skiddy"
Classification:
Date:
1853
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 36 x 56 in. ( 91.4 x 142.2 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of Samuel V. Hoffman
Object Number:
1925.108
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1853
eMuseum Object ID:
41461
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
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