The Death Warrant of Major Andre
Classification:
Date:
After 1855
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 24 x 32 in. ( 61 x 81.3 cm )
Description:
This scene depicts an officer of the Continental Army reading the death warrant to major John André, adjutant-general of the British Army in North America, in his prison quarters in the Casparus Mabie tavern at Tappan, New York, in early October 1780.
Credit Line:
Gift of William H. Foster
Object Number:
1952.33
Marks:
signed: in lower right corner: "F.H"
Gallery Label:
This oil painting, by an unidentified artist, was copied from a small engraving taken from a painting by the well-known historical painter Alonzo Chappel, and published in New York in 1855 by the firm of Martin & Johnson.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1855
eMuseum Object ID:
41330
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Winter Twilight Near Albany
Collections:
Classification:
Date:
1858
Medium:
Oil on linen
Dimensions:
Overall: 16 1/8 x 24 1/4 x 7/8 in. ( 41 x 61.6 x 2.2 cm )
Frame: 29 1/4 x 37 1/2 x 4 1/2 in. (74.3 x 95.3 x 11.4 cm)
Description:
Landscape depicting winter in Albany; barren trees and snow on the ground; in foreground, child pulls a sleigh across a frozen lake.
Credit Line:
The Robert L. Stuart Collection, the gift of his widow Mrs. Mary Stuart
Object Number:
S-234
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1858
eMuseum Object ID:
41329
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Broadway at Grand Street, Looking North
Classification:
Highlight:
Not promoted
Date:
1852
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 17 x 22 x 1 in. ( 43.2 x 55.9 x 2.5 cm )
Description:
Cityscape that depicts a view of Broadway at Grand Street in New York City; the large building on the right is the Broadway House.
Credit Line:
Gift of Samuel V. Hoffman
Object Number:
1910.9
Marks:
signed and dated: on lower right: "R. Bond pinxt 1852"
Gallery Label:
This view of Broadway at Grand Street shows flags at half-mast and festoons of black mourning fabric on Broadway House, which at the time was the political headquarters of the Whig party. A banner inscribed "A Nation / Mourns Its Loss" and the military parade corssing the intersection suggest that the scene represents the funeral of either Henry Clay or Daniel Webster, both held in 1852.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1852
eMuseum Object ID:
41326
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Mrs. Andrew Hood (1824-1900)
Classification:
Date:
1863
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 30 x 25 in. ( 76.2 x 63.5 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of Anne C. Hood
Object Number:
1941.640
Marks:
signature and date: on back: "Portrait of Mrs. Andrew Hood. By Wm. S. Mount. June 1863"
Gallery Label:
Maria Louise Van Tassel, the daughter of James and Catherine (Fowler) Van Tassel, became the second wife of Andrew Hood in 1849. Her portrait was a gift to the Society from her daughter.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1863
eMuseum Object ID:
41323
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Philip Hone (1780-1851)
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1823-1826
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 30 1/4 x 25 in. ( 76.8 x 63.5 cm )
Object Number:
1981.13
Gallery Label:
A native New Yorker, Hone began his career in the auction business. He was so successful that by the age of forty-one he could retire from business to devote himself to his several interests, among them the formation of a splendid library and art collection. In 1826 he was elected mayor of New York and became active in the Whig party. He describes this experience in a diary he kept from 1828 until his death twenty-three years later. The manuscript diary (28 vols.) is owned by the Society.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1826
eMuseum Object ID:
41322
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Philip Hone (1780-1851)
Classification:
Date:
1845-1850
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 30 1/8 x 25 1/8 in. ( 76.5 x 63.8 cm )
Credit Line:
Purchase, The Art and Prosper Guerry Funds
Object Number:
1951.475
Gallery Label:
A native New Yorker, Hone began his career in the auction business. He was so successful that by the age of forty-one he could retire from business to devote himself to his several interests, among them the formation of a splendid library and art collection. In 1826 he was elected mayor of New York and became active in the Whig party. He describes this experience in a diary he kept from 1828 until his death twenty-three years later. The manuscript diary (28 vols.) is owned by the Society.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1850
eMuseum Object ID:
41321
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
De Peyster Boy, with a Deer
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1730-1735
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 50 1/4 x 41 in. ( 127.6 x 104.1 cm )
Credit Line:
Bequest of Catherine Augusta De Peyster
Object Number:
1911.6
Gallery Label:
The subject of this portrait may be Jacobus De Peyster (1726-99), later known as James A. De Peyster, the son of Abraham De Peyster, Jr., and Margareta (Van Cortlandt) De Peyster. It is based on John Smith's mezzotint of Lord Buckhurst and Lady Mary Sackville (1695) after a painting by Sir Godfrey Kneller.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1735
eMuseum Object ID:
41315
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
De Peyster Boy, with a Dog
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1730-1735
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 50 1/4 x 41 in. ( 127.6 x 104.1 cm )
Credit Line:
Bequest of Catherine Augusta De Peyster
Object Number:
1911.4
Gallery Label:
The subject of this portrait is perhaps Abraham De Peyster (1723-34), a son of Abraham De Peyster, Jr., and Margareta (Van Cortlandt) De Peyster of New York. It is possible that the portrait was painted after the boy's death, as was often the case with portraits of children in colonial America. Like numerous other portraits of the period, it was based on an English mezzotint. In this instance the print was one by John Smith (1701) after a painting by Sir Godfrey Kneller.
Bibliography:
Olson, Roberta J. M. "A selection of European paintings and objects." The Magazine Antiques 167 (2005): 182-187.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1735
eMuseum Object ID:
41314
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
William De Peyster, Jr. (1735-1803)
Classification:
Date:
1792
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 29 3/4 x 25 in. ( 75.6 x 63.5 cm )
Credit Line:
Bequest of Waldron Phoenix Belknap, Jr.
Object Number:
1950.237
Gallery Label:
The subject of this portrait was the son of William De Peyster, Sr., and Margareta (Roosevelt) De Peyster. After the Revolution he amassed a considerable fortune as a merchant, which he passed on to his sons who lost much of it during the War of 1812. He was a prominent citizen of New York and was on the board of managers of the almshouse. Peale painted this portrait of his father-in-law and another of his mother-in-law while visiting them in New York in 1792.
Bibliography:
Sellers, Charles Coleman, Portraits and Miniatures by Charles Willson Peale, The Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. 42, Part I, Philadelphia: 1952, pp. 66-8, 270, 334.
Belknap, Waldron Phoenix, Jr. The De Peyster Geneaology. Boston: Privately Printed, 1956, pp. 66-8, fig. 14
Belknap, Waldron Phoenix, Jr. American Colonial Painting, materials for a history. Cambridge, Mass. Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1959, pp. 47-58, II-IV.
Catalogue of American Portraits in The New-York Historical Society, New Haven: Yale University Press, Vol. 2, 1974, pp. 210-1.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1792
eMuseum Object ID:
41312
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
William De Peyster, Sr. (1709-1784)
Classification:
Date:
1798
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 30 x 25 in. ( 76.2 x 63.5 cm )
Credit Line:
Bequest of Emily M. De Peyster
Object Number:
1918.11
Gallery Label:
The subject of this portrait was born in New York, the son of Johannes (1666-1711) and Anna (Bancker) De Peyster. He was an officer in the militia and an assistant alderman of the common council prior to the capture of New York by the British in the Revolution. Peale made copies of portraits of William De Peyster, Sr., and his wife for Ann De Peyster, the subject's daughter, while in New York in 1798. The portrait of Mr. De Peyster was a gift to the Society from his great-great-granddaughter.
Bibliography:
Sellers, Charles Coleman, Portraits and Miniatures by Charles Willson Peale, The Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. 42, Part I, Philadelphia: 1952, pp. 66, 270.
Belknap, Waldron Phoenix, Jr. The De Peyster Geneaology. Boston: Privately Printed, 1956, pp. 63-4, fig. 12
Belknap, Waldron Phoenix, Jr. American Colonial Painting, materials for a history. Cambridge, Mass. Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1959, pp. 47-58, II-IV.
Catalogue of American Portraits in The New-York Historical Society, New Haven: Yale University Press, Vol. 1, 1974, pp 207-8.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1798
eMuseum Object ID:
41311
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
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