Mrs. Daniel D. Tompkins (1781-1829)
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1809
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 52 7/8 x 40 3/4 in. ( 134.3 x 103.5 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of members of the family of the subject
Object Number:
1951.70
Gallery Label:
Hannah Minthorne was the daughter of Mangle Minthorne, a prominent alderman of New York's Seventh and Tenth wards, and his wife Aryet (Constable) Minthorne. She married Daniel D. Tompkins in 1798. This portrait was painted in Albany when Tompkins was in his second year as governor, and was no doubt meant to hang in the governor's mansion.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1809
eMuseum Object ID:
40506
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Cornelius Amory Pugsley (1850-1936)
Classification:
Date:
1928
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 30 x 25 in. ( 76.2 x 63.5 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of the Peekskill Military Academy
Object Number:
1950.140
Gallery Label:
Cornelius A. Pugsley, a banker and congressman, was president of the board of trustees of the Peekskill Military Academy, and his portrait was painted for that institution, which in turn presented it to The New-York Historical Society.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1928
eMuseum Object ID:
40503
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Steamboat "Jenny Lind"
Classification:
Date:
1850
Medium:
Oil on canvas (relined)
Dimensions:
Overall: 28 3/4 x 47 3/4 in. ( 73 x 121.3 cm )
Description:
The Collyer sloop General Putnam appears in the background of Bard's painting.
Credit Line:
Gift of Mrs. Harold J. Roig
Object Number:
1979.77
Marks:
signed and dated: lower right: "Picture Drawn, & Painted by James Bard, N. Y./Decr 17th 1850"
inscribed: lower left: "Built by George Collyer, N. Y./1850"
Gallery Label:
This painting descended in the Collyer family. The donor's grandmother was a sister of George, Thomas, and William Collyer, shipbuilders. A drawing by Bard of the Jenny Lind is in the collection of the Mariners Museum, Newport News, Virginia.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1850
eMuseum Object ID:
40501
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
New York Harbor
Classification:
Is owned by NYHS:
Yes
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Description:
This scene depicts the upper harbor with New York in the background; at the right is Castle Williams.
Gallery Label:
This item was sold by Robert Fridenberg to Hall Park McCullough on January 25, 1935 at an auction of American historical paintings at the American Art Association. It was donated to the Society by McCullough's family in 1971. Another oil by Birch of the same title is at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston (Acc #47.1181).
Date End:
1813
eMuseum Object ID:
40500
Exclude from TMS update:
OFF
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Capture of the H. B. M. Sloop-of-War Frolic by the U.S. Sloop-of-War Wasp
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Classification:
Highlight:
Not promoted
Date:
ca. 1815-1820
Medium:
Oil on canvas (relined)
Dimensions:
Overall: 28 x 36 1/8 x 7/8 in. ( 71.1 x 91.8 x 2.2 cm )
Description:
Marine view that depicts the boarding and capture of the British, Frolic, by the U.S. Wasp.
Credit Line:
Gift of Henry O. Havemeyer, Esquire
Object Number:
1948.577
Gallery Label:
Birch's first view of this subject was probably commissioned by Nicholas Biddle of Philadelphia, whose brother James served as first lieutenant on the Wasp during the battle. According to a 1955 letter from Colonel Nicholas Biddle of Philadelphia to Henry O. Havemeyer, the Society's painting once belonged to Biddle's father, Edward. The senior Biddle had either sold the painting to Herbert Cragg (Pratt), from whom Mr. Havemeyer later purchased it.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1820
eMuseum Object ID:
40497
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Mrs. Hooper Cumming and Daughter Harriet
Classification:
Highlight:
Not promoted
Date:
ca. 1818
Medium:
Oil on panel
Dimensions:
Overall: 29 3/4 x 24 in. ( 75.6 x 61 cm )
Credit Line:
Bequest of Mrs. Julia C. Van Arsdale Jones
Object Number:
1896.4
Gallery Label:
Sarah Sophia Wright of New York was married to the Reverend Hooper Cumming of Newark on April 5, 1814. Their daughter Harriet later became the wife of Edward A. Jee, a commission merchant and insurance broker in New York. Ames also painted a pendant of Hooper Cumming, measuring the same size, and with Cumming turned to face his wife and daughter (collection: New Jersey Historical Society).
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1818
eMuseum Object ID:
40468
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Charles Patrick Daly (1816-1899)
Classification:
Date:
1874
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 24 x 20 in. ( 61 x 50.8 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of the American Geographical Society
Object Number:
1946.135
Marks:
signature and date: at left: "B. F. Reinhart / 1874"
Gallery Label:
Daly was born in New York to Irish parents who had emigrated from Galway in 1814, and was admitted to the bar in 1839. He was elected to the state assembly in 1843 and was appointed a judge of the New York City Court of Common Pleas the following year. He held the latter position for forty-one years, serving as chief justice from 1858. Daly was president of the American Geographical Society, which commissioned this portrait.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1874
eMuseum Object ID:
40469
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Augustus Van Horne Stuyvesant, Sr. (1838-1915)
Classification:
Highlight:
Not promoted
Date:
ca. 1875
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 30 x 25 1/8 in. ( 76.2 x 63.8 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of the Estate of Augustus Van Horne Stuyvesant, Jr.
Object Number:
1957.51
Gallery Label:
The subject was the younger son of Gerard Stuyvesant and Susan Rivington (Van Horne) Stuyvesant. He attended Columbia College and was a member of the Union, Knickerbocker, Metropolitan, Tuxedo, Country, and New York Yacht clubs and of the St. Nicholas Society.
Provenance:
The Augustus Van Horne Stuyvesant, Jr. Collection
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1875
eMuseum Object ID:
40429
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Steamboat "Moses Taylor"
Classification:
Date:
1859
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 29 3/4 x 49 7/8 in. ( 75.6 x 126.7 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of the Hudson River Day Line
Object Number:
1948.487
Marks:
signed and dated: lower right: "Drawn & Painted by James Bard, N.Y., 1859/162 Perry St., N.Y."
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1859
eMuseum Object ID:
40388
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Maria McKesson (1742-1829)
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1815
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 36 x 28 in. ( 91.4 x 71.1 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of Mrs. Irving McKesson
Object Number:
1959.69
Gallery Label:
The subject, also known as Mary and Aunt Polly, was the younger daughter of Alexander McKesson, who emigrated to America from Argyleshire, Scotland, in 1731, and Mary (Ward) McKesson. She was born at Fogges Manor, Chester, Pennsylvania. When her bachelor brother John (1734-96) moved to New York, she accompanied him and kept house for him.
Bibliography:
M. Knoedler & Co., Catalogue: American Paintings of the 18th & Early 19th Century in Our Current Collection, New York: M. Knoedler & Co., 1946, No. 37.
Auction Catalogue for Sale no. 1654, Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., New York, February 29, 1956, pp. 48-9, lot no. 72.
Dickson, Harold E., John Wesley Jarvis: American Painter, 1780-1840, New York: The New-York Historical Society, 1949, p. 358.
Annual Report of the New-York Historical Society for the Year 1959, New York, The New-York Historical Society, 1960, pp. 53-4.
Catalogue of American Portraits in The New-York Historical Society, Vol. 2, New York: The New-York Historical Society, 1974, p. 505.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1815
eMuseum Object ID:
40372
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
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