Trenton High Falls
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1835
Medium:
Oil on wood panel
Dimensions:
Overall: 23 1/2 x 33 in. ( 59.7 x 83.8 cm )
frame: 29 1/2 x 39 1/4 x 2 in. (74.9 x 99.7 x 5.1 cm)
Description:
Waterfall cascading down the side of a cliff and rocks into a river with trees on either side; in the background, a couple walking down the side of the cliff; men (who appear to be fishing or standing in the river) are also located in the background; two men in the foreground, who appear to be looking at a rifle or a fishing rod, with a spaniel seated next to the them; tree trunk floating in the river; clouds in the sky.
Credit Line:
Purchase
Object Number:
1973.8
Gallery Label:
Lacking a signature or documentation, it cannot be stated categorically that the Society's Trenton Falls is by Bennett; since Bennett executed the original study, however, and since the neatness, clarity, and precision of detail in the Society's oil are characteristics one would expect from an engraver, it is probable that the work is a Bennett original rather than a copy by another hand; that the landscape was painted on a wood panel also gives credence to this conclusion, insofar as studies by
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1835
eMuseum Object ID:
41288
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Steamboat "Anglo American"
Classification:
Date:
1849
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 29 x 49 in. ( 73.7 x 124.5 cm )
Credit Line:
Purchase
Object Number:
1935.93
Marks:
signed: on lower right: "Drawn and Painted by James Bard, N.Y., 1849"
signed: on lower left: "Thomas Collyer, Builder, N.Y.,1849"
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1849
eMuseum Object ID:
41287
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Eldad Holmes (d. 1856)
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1830
Medium:
Oil on wood panel
Dimensions:
Overall: 33 1/2 x 26 in. ( 85.1 x 66 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of the Tradesmen's Bank of New York
Object Number:
1900.3
Gallery Label:
The subject, a merchant in New York, was the first president of the Tradesmen's Bank of New York (1823-24) and its director from 1823 to 1850. He, along with John Pintard, Cadwallader D. Colden, William Bayard and some others, was appointed to the committee to organize the celebration in New York of the opening of the Erie Canal in 1825.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1830
eMuseum Object ID:
41282
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
David Holly (1768-1843)
Classification:
Date:
n.d.
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 12 x 10 1/4 in. ( 30.5 x 26 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of Adelaide Milton de Groot
Object Number:
1941.1042
Gallery Label:
A prominent mill owner, iron master, and landholder of Old Milford, Conn., in 1830 Holly headed the petition to the General Assembly to establish the borough of Stamford. His portrait was a gift to the Society from his great-granddaughter.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
0
eMuseum Object ID:
41281
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Myron Holley (1779-1844)
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1820
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 29 3/4 x 23 3/4 in. ( 75.6 x 60.3 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of Sallie Holley
Object Number:
1892.4
Gallery Label:
A native of Connecticut, Holley graduated from Williams College, went on to study law, and in 1802 established his practice in Salisbury. He gave up law, however, to become a bookseller in Canandaigua, N.Y. In 1816 he was elected to the state assembly and later became one of the commissioners of the Erie Canal project, eventually being named its treasurer. Holley appears to be about 40 years old here, indicating a date of ca. 1820 when state business would have taken him to Albany.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1820
eMuseum Object ID:
41280
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Ogden Hoffman (1793-1856)
Classification:
Date:
n.d.
Medium:
Oil on cardboard
Dimensions:
Overall: 15 1/4 x 13 in. ( 38.7 x 33 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of William Wickham Hoffman
Object Number:
1966.2
Gallery Label:
The subject was the son of Josiah Ogden Hoffman of Newark, N.J., and his first wife, Mary (Colden) Hoffman of Orange County, New York. He studied law, was admitted to the New York bar, and became one of the leading criminal lawyers of the mid-19th century. He was twice elected to Congress (1838 and 1848) and served as state attorney general of New York.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
0
eMuseum Object ID:
41277
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Samuel Verplanck Hoffman (1866-1942)
Classification:
Date:
1910
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 51 3/4 x 36 1/4 in. ( 131.4 x 92.1 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of the artist
Object Number:
1911.2
Marks:
signature and date: lower right: "R. Schmidt 1910"
Gallery Label:
The subject was one of the nine children of the Rev. Eugene Augustus Hoffman and Mary Crooke (Elmendorf) Hoffman of New Brunswick, N.J. He studied astronomy at Johns Hopkins University and taught that subject there for a few years, until management of his father's extensive properties in New York demanded his full attention. In 1901 he became a life member of N-YHS and two years later succeeded his father as its president, serving 1903-1912.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1910
eMuseum Object ID:
41278
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
John De Peyster (1731-1807)
Classification:
Date:
1798
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 30 x 28 in. ( 76.2 x 71.1 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of Christopher Champlin
Object Number:
1894.1
Marks:
signature and date: at left: "C. W. Peale / painted 1798"
Gallery Label:
The subject was a merchant in New York, and the son of William De Peyster, Sr., and Margareta (Roosevelt) De Peyster. This portrait, a gift to the Society from his grandson, was painted in New York while Peale and his second wife, Elizabeth, a niece of John De Peyster, were visiting there in 1798. From the mid-1790s Peale's time was largely devoted to the Peale Museum in Philadelphia rather than to painting, but a number of portraits by him of his wife's relatives date from this time.
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. 63, 270.
Belknap, Waldron Phoenix, Jr. The De Peyster Geneaology. Boston: Privately Printed, 1956, p. 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, p 207.
Miller, Lillian B., ed., The Selected Papers of Charles Willson Peale and his family. New Haven: Published for the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution by Yale University Press, c. 1983, p. 226.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1798
eMuseum Object ID:
41268
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Johannes DePeyster III (1694-1789)
Classification:
Date:
1718
Medium:
Oil on bed ticking
Dimensions:
Overall: 44 x 38 1/4 in. ( 111.8 x 97.2 cm )
Credit Line:
Bequest of Waldron Phoenix Belknap, Jr.
Object Number:
1950.236
Marks:
inscription: lower right: "Aetats Suae / 24 /Ano 1718"
Gallery Label:
The subject, born in New York, was the son of Johannes (1666-1711) and Anna (Bancker) De Peyster, and was the namesake grandson of Johannes De Peyster (b. 1626) who came from Haarlem, Holland. He served three times as mayor of Albany, in 1729-31, 1732-33, and 1741-42. In the late 1730s and 1740s he was one of the commissioners of Indian affairs and was paymaster of the New York regiment in the French and Indian Wars (1755-56).
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1718
eMuseum Object ID:
41267
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Isaac De Peyster (1662-1728)
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1700-1705
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 29 1/2 x 25 1/4 in. ( 74.9 x 64.1 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of Arthur T. Sutcliffe
Object Number:
1960.55
Gallery Label:
The subject of this portrait was the son of Johannes De Peyster (b. 1626) and the brother of Abraham, Johannes, and Cornelius. His brothers had large real estate holdings and each held major civic offices in New York. Isaac was also a merchant in New York. Before coming to the Society this portrait hung in Teller Mansion, N.Y. The wife of the donor was a descendant of the subject.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1705
eMuseum Object ID:
41266
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
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