William C. Bouck (1786-1859)
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1847
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 21 x 17 in. ( 53.3 x 43.2 cm )
Credit Line:
Purchase, The Louis Durr Fund
Object Number:
1913.2
Gallery Label:
Bouck was born in Fulton, New York, where his career in politics began when he became a clerk of his home town at the age of twenty-one. In 1813 he was elected state assemblyman from Schoharie County, and in 1821 he was named a canal commissioner, a post he held until 1840. Bouck was elected governor of New York in 1842, and remained for two years in that office.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1847
eMuseum Object ID:
39630
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John Vaché Cox (1818-1882)
Classification:
Date:
1857
Medium:
Oil on cardboard
Dimensions:
Overall: 12 1/2 x 10 1/2 in. ( 31.8 x 26.7 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of Isabella Vaché Cox
Object Number:
1935.63
Gallery Label:
The subject of this portrait was the eldest son of Dr. John Palmer Cox and Emilie (Vaché) Cox, and a brother of Emilie Aglae Cox (Mrs. Thomas Soden Henry). As a young man he was employed by Prall and Ray, a wholesale drug firm in New York. He later became a drug broker and a mercantile broker. His portrait was a gift to the Society from his daughter. Kohlback, who later in his career turned to photographic portraiture, probably painted it with the assistance of photographs.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1857
eMuseum Object ID:
39623
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Henry Brockholst Livingston (1757-1823)
Classification:
Highlight:
Not promoted
Date:
ca. 1820
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 26 1/4 x 21 3/8 in. ( 66.7 x 54.3 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of John Archibald Devereux and Walter Devereux
Object Number:
1942.437
Gallery Label:
Judge Livingston was the son of William (1723-90) and Susanna (French) Livingston, the grandson of Philip Livingston and the great-grandson of Robert Livingston, first lord of Livingston Manor. He practiced law in New York and was appointed to the New York State Supreme Court in 1802. A strong anti-Federalist, he sided with Thomas Jefferson who named him to the United States Supreme Court in 1806. He was one of the first vice-presidents of N-YHS.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1820
eMuseum Object ID:
39617
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Mrs. John Vaché Cox (1823-1899)
Classification:
Date:
1857
Medium:
Oil on cardboard
Dimensions:
Overall: 12 1/2 x 10 1/2 in. ( 31.8 x 26.7 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of Isabella Vaché Cox
Object Number:
1935.64
Marks:
signature: at left: "P. Kohlbeck. Paent"
inscription: at right: "Meade Prothers[sic] Photograff. 1857"
Gallery Label:
Eliza Pilcher was the eldest daughter of Henry and Frances Pilcher of Canterbury, England. She married John Vaché Cox on December 10, 1844, at the Church of the Holy Evangelist, New York. Her portrait, a gift to the Society from her daughter, was painted from a photograph taken by Meade Brothers, of New York. Kohlbeck had recently arrived in the U.S. in 1857, which probably accounts for the misspelling in the inscription. He was active in New York from about 1857 to 1878.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1857
eMuseum Object ID:
39616
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Mr. Boynton
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1910-1920
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 30 1/8 x 25 1/8 in. ( 76.5 x 63.8 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of the artist
Object Number:
1944.14
Marks:
signature: lower left: "Helen M. Turner"
inscription: on back: "Portrait / Mr. Boynton"
Gallery Label:
This portrait came to the Society identified only as "Mr. Boynton." The artist, a great-granddaughter of John Pintard, took classes at the Art Students League in New York City in the early 1900s and was elected to the National Academy of Design in 1913.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1920
eMuseum Object ID:
39592
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Mrs. William Couch (1794-1886)
Classification:
Date:
n.d.
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 34 x 27 in. ( 86.4 x 68.6 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of the James Foundation
Object Number:
1959.37
Gallery Label:
Ellen Vanderwater Stebbins was the eldest child of David Stebbins (1768-1828) and Sarah (Cowdry) Stebbins of New York. She married William Couch on December 11, 1810. This portrait is apparently a copy after an original painted from life.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
0
eMuseum Object ID:
39508
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John Cruger, Sr. (1677-1744)
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1740
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 45 x 36 in. ( 114.3 x 91.4 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of Edmund Astley Prentis
Object Number:
1957.64
Gallery Label:
Cruger, of German extraction, probably came to New York from Bristol, England, in 1698. He developed a prosperous shipping trade with Bristol and the West Indies, and lived in a fine mansion on Broad Street, some of the furnishings and silver from which are preserved in public and private collections. Cruger was an alderman in New York from 1712 to 1734 and was appointed mayor in 1744, an office he held continuously until his death. He was buried in the graveyard of the Old Dutch Church.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1740
eMuseum Object ID:
39497
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The Reverend Hooper Cumming (1787-1825)
Classification:
Highlight:
Not promoted
Date:
ca. 1830-1835
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 30 x 25 in. ( 76.2 x 63.5 cm )
Credit Line:
Bequest of Mrs. Julia C. Van Arsdale Jones
Object Number:
1896.1
Gallery Label:
The subject of this portrait was the son of General John Noble Cumming of New Jersey. He became the first minister of the Second Presbyterian Church of Newark and was serving as the minister of the Third Presbyterian Church of Albany by 1818. His portrait was a gift to the Society from his daughter.
Bibliography:
Catalogue of the Gallery of Art of The New York Historical Society, no. 309, New York: Printed for the Society, 1915, p. 36.
Kelby, William, Notes on American Artists 1754-1820, New York: The New-York Historical Society, 1922, p. 61.
Bolton, Theodore, "Henry Inman, Portrait Painter," Creative Art, Vol. 12, February 1933, p. 122.
Dickson, H.E., "John Wesley Jarvis: Knickerbocker Painter," The New-York Historical Society Quarterly 24, no. 2, April 1940, p. 59.
Bolton, Theodore, "A Catalogue of the Paintings of Henry Inman," no. 29, The Art Quarterly 3, no. 4, Autumn 1940, p. 404.
Catalogue of American Portraits in The New-York Historical Society, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1941, p. 68.
Catalogue of American Portraits in the New-York Historical Society, no. 1768, Vol. 1, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1974, p. 179-80.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1835
eMuseum Object ID:
39378
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Mrs. Levi Guernsey Curtiss (1812-1886)
Classification:
Date:
n.d.
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 34 x 27 in. ( 86.4 x 68.6 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of the James Foundation
Object Number:
1959.31
Gallery Label:
Helen M. Couch was the daughter of William Couch and Ellen Vanderwater (Stebbins) Couch of New York. She was married to Levi Guernsey Curtiss (1803-1833). Her portrait is a replica of an early 19th-century original.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
0
eMuseum Object ID:
39257
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Nicholas de Peyster (ca. 1824-1889)
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1885
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 27 x 22 1/8 in. ( 68.6 x 56.2 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of William Moore De Peyster
Object Number:
1952.24
Gallery Label:
The subject of this portrait inherited a large fortune from the De Peyster family and added to it significantly through several successful business ventures in California, where he went in 1849.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1885
eMuseum Object ID:
38911
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
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