James Kent (1763-1847)
Classification:
Date:
1823
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 30 x 25 in. ( 76.2 x 63.5 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of John Delafield
Object Number:
X.10
Gallery Label:
Kent was born in Fredericksburgh, New York, the son of Moss and Hannah (Rogers) Kent. He practiced law first in Poughkeepsie, New York, and later in New York City. His career on the bench began with his appointment to the New York Supreme Court in 1798; he became chief judge six years later. From 1814 to 1823, when he retired, Kent was chancellor of the New York Court of Chancery. He was elected an honorary member of The New-York Historical Society in 1813 and its fifth president in 1828.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1823
eMuseum Object ID:
41422
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Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1865-1870
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
canvas: 58 1/2 x 39 1/2 in. ( 148.6 x 100.3 cm )
frame: 65 1/4 x 46 3/4 x 1 7/8 in. ( 165.7 x 118.7 x 4.8 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of Mrs. Oscar Marshall and her children
Object Number:
1926.5
Marks:
signature: lower right: "W. E. Marshall"
Gallery Label:
Using his earlier bust-length portrait as the model for the head, Marshall created this three-quarter-length portrait showing Lincoln standing with a scroll in his left hand as if about to deliver a speech. The portrait was inherited by Oscar Marshall upon the death of his brother, the artist, and donated to the Society by the artist's sister-in-law.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1870
eMuseum Object ID:
41420
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Cayambe
Collections:
Classification:
Is owned by NYHS:
Yes
Date:
1858
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Canvas: 30 x 48 1/8 in. ( 76.2 x 122.2 cm )
Frame: 41 1/8 x 59 1/4 x 4 1/4 in. ( 104.5 x 150.5 x 10.8 cm )
Description:
Landscape depicting the Cayambe, a volcano in Ecuador about 20, 000 feet high, on the line of the Equator; lush greenery with a pond in foreground; reflective river in middleground; stone pedestal in foreground on left; group of houses to far left; large volcano with mountain range in center; clear sky with traces of clouds.
Credit Line:
The Robert L. Stuart Collection, the gift of his widow Mrs. Mary Stuart
Object Number:
S-91
Marks:
inscriptions: lower left: "F.E. Church/1858"
Gallery Label:
Cayambe was commissioned at the apex of Church's career by the New York City refiner, Robert L. Stuart.
Bibliography:
"Domestic Art Gossip," The Crayon, March 1858, pp. 87-8.
"Painting at the Lenox Library," The Critic: a Weekly Review of Literature and the Arts (18865-1898), Feb. 25, 1893, Vol. 19, No. 591, p. 120.
"Early American Landscape and Genre Painters Seen to Advantage in the Picture Galleries of the Public Library," The New York Times, Aug. 27, 1911, p. SM15.
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, M. and M. Karolik Collection of American Paintings 1815 to 1865, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1949, pp. 162-4.
National Collection of Fine Arts, Frederic Edwin Church. An Exhibition Organized by the National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, 1966, pp. 10, 32.
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, American Paintings in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, MA: Museum of Fine Arts, 1969, Vol. I, p. 213.
Koke, Richard J., American Landscape and Genre Paintings in the New York Historical Society, Vol. I, New York: The New-York Historical Society, 1982, pp. 179-80.
Manthorne, Katherine, "The Quest for a Tropic Paradise: Palm Tree as Fact and Symbol in Latin American Landscape Imagery, 1850-1875," Art Journal, Vol. 44, No. 4 (Winter 1984), pp. 374-82.
Manthorne, Katherine, Creation & Renewal: Views of Cotopaxi by Frederic Edwin Church, Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1985, pp. 83-5.
Manthorne, Katherine, Tropical Renaissance: North American artists exploring Latin America, 1839-1879, Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1989, pp. 100-104.
Kelly, Franklin, Frederic Edwin Church, Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1989, pp. 5454-5, 92, 104-5.
Avery, Kevin J., Church's Great Picture: The Heart of the Andes, New York, NY: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1993, pp. 28-31.
Blaugrund, Annette, The Tenth Street Studio Building: Artist-Entrepreneurs from the Hudson River School to the American Impressionists, Southampton, NY: The Parrish Art Museum, 1997, pp. 74, 95, 137.
Vallano, Fabienne-Charlotte Oraezie, Alle radici dell'etica ambientale: pensiero sulla natura, wilderness e creativita artistica negli Stati Uniti del XIX secolo, Firenze, Italy, 1993, pp. 355-410.
Troyen, Carol, Moore, Charlotte Emans, and Diamond, Priscilla Kate, American Paintings in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, MA: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1997, n.p.
Carr, Gerald L., In Search of the Promised Land: Paintings by Frederic Edwin Church, New York, NY: Berry-Hill Galleries, Inc., 2000, pp. 11-7, 61-75, 144, 191.
Howat, John K., Frederic Church, New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2005, pp. 54-6, 75-6.
Viveros-Faune, Christian, "The Promised Land," New York Press, May 2000, n.p.
Stevens, Mark, "A View with Some Room," New York Magazine (NYMag.com), May 15, 2000.
Goodrich, John, "Frederic Edwin Church: In Search of the Promised Land," Reviewny.com, June 1, 2000.
Belli, Gabriella, Giacomoni, Paola, Cavina, Anna Ottani, Curators, Montagna: arte, scienza, mito da Durer a Warhol, Milan, Italy: Skira, 2003, p. 357.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1858
eMuseum Object ID:
41412
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Mr. Hyde Driving His Coach
Classification:
Date:
1901
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 43 3/4 x 59 in. ( 111.1 x 149.9 cm )
Description:
Portrait of the donor James Hazen Hyde driving a horse drawn carriage with two passengers through a town; river in the background; trees on far left.
Credit Line:
Gift of James Hazen Hyde
Object Number:
1947.437
Marks:
signed and dated: in lower right corner: "Chartran/1901"
Gallery Label:
Chartran's portrait of James Hazen Hyde in the Society's collection, painted in New York and also dated 1901, indicates that the artist's 1901 study of Mr. Hyde driving his coach could have well been painted in the United States, although the canvas stencil is in French.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1901
eMuseum Object ID:
41411
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James Hazen Hyde (1876-1959)
Classification:
Date:
1901
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Framed: 57 1/2 × 40 3/4 × 2 1/2 in. (146.1 × 103.5 × 6.4 cm)
Unframed: 53 1/4 × 36 in. (135.3 × 91.4 cm)
Credit Line:
Gift of James Hazen Hyde
Object Number:
1949.1
Marks:
Signed and dated upper right: "Chartran / NY 1901"
Gallery Label:
The subject was born in New York, the son of Henry Baldwin Hyde and Annie (Fitch) Hyde, and succeeded his father as president of the Equitable Life Assurance Society after serving as vice-president from 1899 to 1905. He was a founder of the Alliance Française in America, received the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor from the French government, and was a member of the Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques. He was also a member of The New-York Historical Society.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1901
eMuseum Object ID:
41410
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Portrait of an Unidentified Woman
Collections:
Classification:
Is owned by NYHS:
Yes
Highlight:
Display this item in the highlights
Date:
ca. 1700-1725
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall (canvas): 49 1/8 x 38 7/8 in. (124.8 x 98.7 cm)
Frame: 57 1/4 x 46 7/16 x 1 in. (145.4 x 118 x 2.5 cm)
Credit Line:
Purchase
Object Number:
1952.80
Gallery Label:
Typical of provincial British portraiture of the early eighteenth century, this rather curious portrait of a woman had long been identified as a likeness of Edward Hyde, who carried the title Viscount Cornbury and was appointed Governor of the Province of New York and New Jersey by his cousin, Queen Anne, in 1702. Serving as Governor until 1708, Lord Cornbury was reported to have been "universally detested," and a fondness for cross-dressing accompanied his reputation as "half-witted." Popular legend had it that the Governor discredited his office by publicly appearing in women's attire, strolling Broadway - even opening the Assembly - in his wife's clothes. Hyde is also said to have held his state levees at New York, and received his visitors dressed up in complete female court costume, because he represented the person of a female Sovereign, his cousin Queen Anne. Recent scholarship has both removed some of the blemishes added to Cornbury's gubernatorial abilities by nineteenth century detractors, and reclaimed the likeness as female. However the sitter's identity, like that of the artist who captured her straightforward gaze without softening her features for the sake of a beautiful picture, remains a mystery.
Bibliography:
Patricia U. Bonomi, "The Lord Cornbury Scandal: The Politics of Reputation in British America" (University of North Carolina Press, 2000).
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1725
eMuseum Object ID:
41409
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Robert Hunter (1666-1734)
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1720
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 50 x 40 in. ( 127 x 101.6 cm )
Credit Line:
Purchase
Object Number:
1937.321
Gallery Label:
Hunter, a colonial governor in America and later in Jamaica, was born in Ayrshire, Scotland and joined the army as a youth. In 1709 the crown appointed him captain general and governor of the provinces of New York and New Jersey; arriving in New York in 1710 he began a nine-year administration that proved both wise and popular. With Lewis Morris, first lord of the manor of Morrisania in New York, he was co-author of the first play ("Androborus," a satire) to be written and published in America.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1720
eMuseum Object ID:
41408
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Leigh Hunt (1858-1937)
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1900-1910
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 22 1/4 x 18 in. ( 56.5 x 45.7 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of Samuel Landsman in memory of Leigh Hunt
Object Number:
1942.421
Gallery Label:
A native of Galena, Illinois, Hunt distinguished himself as an etcher, teacher, lecturer, and author. He graduated from City College of New York in 1877, having majored in art. He enrolled at the Bellevue Medical School to study anatomy and actually obtained an M.D. degree in 1880 but did not practice medicine. Rather, in 1890 he joined the faculty of City College as an instructor in art. When he retired in 1928 he was a full professor and chairman of the dept. of fine arts of that institution.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1910
eMuseum Object ID:
41406
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The Reverend Frank Landon Humphries (1858-1937)
Classification:
Highlight:
Not promoted
Date:
ca. 1900-1910
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 50 1/8 x 30 1/8 in. ( 127.3 x 76.5 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of the Veteran Corps of Artillery
Object Number:
1950.76
Marks:
signature: lower right: "Edith C. Phelps"
Gallery Label:
A native of Auburn, New York, the subject was ordained in 1883 and appointed acting chaplain of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point in 1896. He was later a canon of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine (1900-1906) in New York. He was also chaplain of the Society of the Cincinnati and other patriotic organizations, a member of the Veteran Corps of Artillery, and at one time mayor of Boynton, Florida, where he maintained a winter home.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1910
eMuseum Object ID:
41405
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
James T. Powers (1862-1943)
Classification:
Date:
1920
Medium:
Oil on artboard
Dimensions:
Overall: 30 x 22 in. ( 76.2 x 55.9 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of Mrs. Margaret DeVaney in memory of James T. Powers and Rachel (Booth) Powers
Object Number:
1955.168
Marks:
signature and date: lower left: "Joseph / Cummings / Chase / 1920[?]"
inscription: upper left: "James T. Powers / as / 'Bob Acres'"
Gallery Label:
Powers, an actor in comedy roles, was born in New York and made his stage debut in Boston in 1880. He is represented here in the role of Bob Acres from Sheriden's play "The Rivals."
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1920
eMuseum Object ID:
41404
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
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