Edward Lyde (1773-1831)
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1822-1825
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 28 x 23 1/4 in. ( 71.1 x 59.1 cm )
Credit Line:
Purchase, The Louis Durr Fund
Object Number:
1920.1
Gallery Label:
The subject was the son of Edward and Elizabeth (Oliver) Lyde. His father was a prosperous ironmonger of the firm of Lyde and Rogers which had been established in New York shortly after the Revolution. Edward Lyde went to work for his father's firm around 1797. This portrait, which was acquired from estate of the subject's granddaughter, was probably painted in New York soon after Peale moved there from Baltimore in 1822.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1825
eMuseum Object ID:
36531
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Mrs. Henry Brockholst Livingston (1774-1861)
Classification:
Highlight:
Not promoted
Date:
ca. 1810
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 36 x 28 in. ( 91.4 x 71.1 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of Lucille de Luze Foley and Elizabeth Makin
Object Number:
1952.74
Gallery Label:
Catherine Seaman was the daughter of Edmund and Elizabeth (Zabriskie) Seaman of Long Island. She married her first husband, Captain John Kortright (d. 1810), in 1810. She later became the third wife of Brockholst Livingston. Her portrait was a gift to the Society from her great-granddaughters.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1810
eMuseum Object ID:
36197
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Judith Pickman (1735-1756)
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1752
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 36 x 28 in. ( 91.4 x 71.1 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of Edmund Astley Prentis
Object Number:
1953.1
Gallery Label:
Judith Pickman was the daughter of the Hon. Benjamin Pickman and Love (Rawlins) Pickman. In June of 1755 she was married to Dr. Edward Augustus Holyoke, but died in November of 1756. She is represented here in the guise of a shepherdess, a motif derived from mezzotints of 17th- and 18th-century English portraits and used about this same time by Joseph Blackburn, John Singleton Copley, and others.
Date Begin:
1752
Date End:
1752
eMuseum Object ID:
36052
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Chancellor Robert R. Livingston (1746-1813)
Classification:
Highlight:
Not promoted
Date:
ca. 1794
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
canvas: 37 7/8 x 27 5/8 in. ( 96.2 x 70.2 cm )
frame: 47 1/2 x 39 x 5 1/4 in. ( 120.6 x 99.1 x 13.3 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of Goodhue Livingston, Jr.
Object Number:
1960.89
Gallery Label:
The subject was known as Chancellor Robert R. Livingston, a title that distinguished him from the other Roberts in the family. The Chancellor was the great-grandson of Robert Livingston, first lord of Livingston Manor. After being admitted to the bar in 1773 he was elected to the Second Continental Congress, and served on the committee of five that drafted the Declaration of Independence. He was Chancellor of the Supreme Court of the State of New York from 1777 to 1801, and administered the oath of office of President George Washington.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1794
eMuseum Object ID:
35938
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Mrs. Robert Bolton (1793-1859) and Children, Robert and Anne
Classification:
Highlight:
Not promoted
Date:
1818
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 51 x 41 1/4 in. ( 129.5 x 104.8 cm )
Credit Line:
Bequest of Reginald Pelham Bolton
Object Number:
1942.350
Marks:
label: on back: "Miss Adele Bolton"
Gallery Label:
Anne Jay was the daughter of Rev. William Jay and Anne (Davies) Jay of Bath, Somerset, England. She married Robert Bolton in 1811.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1818
eMuseum Object ID:
35749
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
General Alexander Macomb (1782-1841)
Classification:
Date:
After 1829
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 36 1/4 x 28 in. ( 92.1 x 71.1 cm )
Credit Line:
Purchase, The Louis Durr Fund
Object Number:
1923.4
Gallery Label:
A native of Detroit, the subject grew up in the New York-Newark area. He went to West Point in 1802 and was instrumental in the early organization of the academy. He served with distinction in the War of 1812, and was commanding general of the United States army from 1828 until his death. In 1829 Thomas Sully painted five portraits of distinguished army officers for the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, including the original on which Herring's copy was based.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1829
eMuseum Object ID:
35718
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
William Charles Macready (1793-1873)
Classification:
Date:
1827
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 30 1/4 x 25 1/2 in. ( 76.8 x 64.8 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of the New York Gallery of Fine Arts
Object Number:
1858.80
Marks:
inscription: on back: "Mr. Macready in the character of Wm Tell. / Copyd from H Inman's original sketch from Life / by Cummings. 1827"
Gallery Label:
British-born actor William Charles Macready first toured the United States in 1826-27, at which time Henry Inman painted the oil sketch (now at the Metropolitan Museum of Art) on which this copy in based. The actor is represented in the title role from "William Tell," a tragedy by Friedrich von Schiller.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1827
eMuseum Object ID:
35532
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Samuel Maverick (1789-1845)
Classification:
Date:
1818
Medium:
Oil on wood panel
Dimensions:
Overall: 30 1/4 x 22 in. ( 76.8 x 55.9 cm )
Credit Line:
Bequest of Grace E. Parkes
Object Number:
1957.90
Marks:
inscription: on back: "Samuel Maverick / Born in the City of New York / June 5th 1789 / Painted by John W. Jarvis June 5, 1818 / Being 29 years / old"
Gallery Label:
The subject was the son of Peter Rushton Maverick (1755-1811), the engraver, and his second wife, Rebecca (Reynolds) Maverick. He followed the family craft, copperplate engraving, and by 1810 had a shop of his own. His portrait was a gift to the Society from his great-granddaughter.
Bibliography:
Dickson, Harold E., John Wesley Jarvis: American Painter, 1780-1840, New York: The New-York Historical Society, 1949, pp. 208, 359.
"Department of the Museum," Annual Report of the New-York Historical Society for the Year 1954, New York, The New-York Historical Society, 1955, pp. 45-6.
Catalogue of American Portraits in The New-York Historical Society, Vol. 2, New York: The New-York Historical Society, 1974, pp. 518-9.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1818
eMuseum Object ID:
35454
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Mrs. Archibald Laidlie (1743-1825)
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1820
Medium:
Oil on wood panel
Dimensions:
Overall: 36 1/8 x 27 5/8 in. ( 91.8 x 70.2 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of Mrs. Walter Pierson in memory of her cousin, Richard Varick Dey
Object Number:
1927.2
Gallery Label:
Mary Hoffman was the daughter of Martin and Catharine (Benson) Hoffman. She married Dr. Laidlie in 1768.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1820
eMuseum Object ID:
35330
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Landscape: A Valley and Mountains Catskill, NY
Classification:
Highlight:
Not promoted
Date:
19th century
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 13 3/8 x 7 1/2 in. ( 34 x 19 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of Nora Durand Woodman
Object Number:
1918.342
Gallery Label:
This is a fragment cut from a larger picture. Lawall notes that the relationship among the nearest foliage, floor a distant valley, and a distant valley, and mountains is similar to that to the right of center of Durand's Dover Plains, 1848.
Bibliography:
Lawall, David B., Asher Brown Durand: His Art and Art Theory in Relation to his Times, Submitted to Princeton University in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy, March 1966, p. 203.
Lawall, David B., Asher B. Durand: A Documentary Catalogue of the Narrative and Landscape Paintings, New York & London, Garland Publishing, Inc., 1978, p. 168.
Koke, Richard J., American Landscape and Genre Paintings in the New York Historical Society, Vol. I, New York: The New-York Historical Society, 1982, p. 365.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
0
eMuseum Object ID:
34972
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
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