Thomas L. Servoss
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1830
Medium:
Framed oil paint on panel
Dimensions:
Framed: 39 x 34 x 4 in. (99.1 x 86.4 x 10.2 cm)
Credit Line:
Gift of Mr. Mills N. Ripley, Jr. & Anne C. Ripley
Object Number:
1987.13
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1830
eMuseum Object ID:
40368
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Steamboat "Baltic"
Classification:
Date:
1848
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 29 x 49 in. ( 73.7 x 124.5 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of the Hudson River Day Line
Object Number:
1948.486
Marks:
signed and dated: lower right: "Drawn and Painted by James Bard, N.Y., 1849"
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1848
eMuseum Object ID:
40358
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Steamboat "James W. Baldwin"
Classification:
Date:
1865
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 36 x 64 1/8 x 1 in. ( 91.4 x 162.9 x 2.5 cm )
Credit Line:
Purchase
Object Number:
1943.411
Marks:
signed and dated: lower right: "Drawn & Painted by J. Bard, N.Y., 1865"
Gallery Label:
This painting was purchased by the Society in 1943 from the collection of Mrs. Carlton S. Preston, Kingston, N.Y. Other versions of this painting by Bard are in the Museum of the City of New York (Fletcher Collection), the Smithsonian Institution, and in a private collection in New York City.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1865
eMuseum Object ID:
40354
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Michael A. Reed (ca. 1805-?)
Classification:
Date:
1855
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 75 3/4 x 47 1/8 in. ( 192.4 x 119.7 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of the Exempt Firemen's Benevolent Fund Associated of the 23rd and 24th Wards, New York City
Object Number:
1933.10
Marks:
signed and dated: on card, left: "Backofen N.Y. 1855"
Gallery Label:
Reed, who was foreman of the Aqueduct Engine Company Number 47, of the volunteer fire department of New York, is surrounded by paraphernalia associated with the fire department in this portrait: in his right hand is a book titled Fire Laws, and on the floor in the lower right are his fireman's hat and his bullhorn.; his watchfob is a miniature fireman's hat.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1855
eMuseum Object ID:
40343
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Mrs. James Hamilton of Kames (ca. 1790-?)
Classification:
Highlight:
Not promoted
Date:
1834
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 45 1/4 x 29 1/4 in. ( 114.9 x 74.3 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of Florence Audubon
Object Number:
1948.74
Marks:
inscribed: verso, on label: "Maria & Florence Audubon/From Caroline Audubon"
Gallery Label:
John Woodhouse Audubon, the younger son of the famous naturalist, based this painting on a portrait by Sir Henry Raeburn in the National Gallery Scotland at Edinburgh. The portrait was a gift to the Society from the artist's daughter.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1834
eMuseum Object ID:
40342
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
William McKinley (1843-1901)
Classification:
Date:
1901
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 50 x 40 in. ( 127 x 101.6 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of George A. Zabriskie
Object Number:
1946.124
Marks:
signature and date: lower left: "H. T. See / 1901"
Gallery Label:
Although President McKinley was photographed many times during his political career, his likeness was seldom painted from life. This portrait was painted in January 1901, at the end of his first term in office, and only a few months before his death.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1901
eMuseum Object ID:
40327
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John Beale Bordley (1727-1804)
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1790
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 23 1/2 x 20 in. ( 59.7 x 50.8 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of Thomas Jefferson Bryan
Object Number:
1867.300
Gallery Label:
John Beale Bordley, a native of Maryland, served as a judge of the provincial court and later the admiralty court of the province. Upon inheriting a large estate, he devoted the rest of his life to agriculture. He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1783, and was one of the founding members of the Philadelphia Society for Promoting Agriculture two years later. Throughout his life he was one of Charles W. Peale's best friends and benefactors.
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. 36-8.
Paintings by The Peale Family. Cincinnati Art Museum, October 1 to October 31, 1954.
Miller, Lillian B. "Charles Willson Peale as History Painter: The Exhumation of the Mastodon," American Art Journal, Vol. 13, No. 1 (Winter, 1981), pp. 47-68.
Richardson, Edgar P., Hindle, Brooke, and Miller, Lillian B., Charles Willson Peale and His World.. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1983, pp. 28, 30.
Catalogue of American Portraits in The New-York Historical Society, New Haven: Yale University Press, Vol. 1, 1974, p 88.
Manca, Joseph. "Cicero in America: Civic Duty and Private happiness in Charles Willson Peale's Portrait of William Paca," American Art, Vol. 17, No. 1 (Spring, 2003), pp. 68-89.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1790
eMuseum Object ID:
40285
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Edmond Carl Bonaventure (1844-1918)
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1900
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 45 x 35 in. ( 114.3 x 88.9 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of Edmond C. Bonaventure
Object Number:
1950.13
Gallery Label:
Edmond Bonaventure was born in Alsace and educated at the School of Engineers in Chalons. He served as a member of the Fourteenth Artillery in the Franco-Prussian War. He came to the United States in 1871 and worked as a civil and mechanical engineer in New York until 1873. In the panic of that year he lost his business and was forced to sell some of his fine collection of rare books. This led to the establishment about 1878 of his bookstore under the Astor House in Barclay Street.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1900
eMuseum Object ID:
40284
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Alfred T. Agate
Classification:
Date:
1838
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 30 1/4 x 25 1/2 x 1 in. ( 76.8 x 64.8 x 2.5 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of the Ossining Historical Society
Object Number:
1959.57
Gallery Label:
In this portrait, young Alfred T. Agate holds his sketchpad under his left arm in reference to his duties as the artist of Wilkes expedition, which he was about to set out on; the gold buttons on his dark blue coat bear the anchor insignia alluding to his forthcoming sea voyage.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1838
eMuseum Object ID:
40278
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Nathan Sturges Jarvis, M.D. (1801-1862)
Classification:
Highlight:
Not promoted
Date:
1839
Medium:
Oil on wood panel
Dimensions:
Overall: 17 1/2 x 13 5/8 in. ( 44.4 x 34.6 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of Mrs. Nathan S. Jarvis
Object Number:
1933.238
Marks:
signed and dated: verso: "Painted by A. Agate December 1839"
Gallery Label:
The subject, a native of New York, was a commissioned surgeon in the U.S. army during the 1830s, and served in the Seminole and Black Hawk wars. He collected Indian artifacts in the locations in which he was stationed and donated them to The New-York Historical Society, of which he was a member. Agate was the official artist of Lieut. Charles Wilkes's around-the-world exploring expedition, which departed the U.S. in 1838 and returned in 1842. This portrait was painted during that expedition.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1839
eMuseum Object ID:
40274
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
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