View of New York on the Bay from Staten Island
Classification:
Highlight:
Not promoted
Date:
1871
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 22 1/2 x 44 in. ( 57.2 x 111.8 cm )
Frame: 29 1/2 x 51 x 3 in. (74.9 x 129.5 x 7.6 cm)
Credit Line:
Purchase, Thomas Jefferson Bryan Fund
Object Number:
1978.35
Gallery Label:
A replica (16 x 30 inches, signed and dated H. Fuchsel, N.Y., 1873) was in the collection of the Harry Shaw Newman Gallery, New York City, in 1951.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1871
eMuseum Object ID:
30037
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
The Postman
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1860
Medium:
Oil on linen
Dimensions:
Overall: 13 1/4 x 10 1/4 x 5/8 in. ( 33.7 x 26 x 1.6 cm )
Description:
Portrait of man standing in the arch of a doorway reading the address of his next delivery; figure is attired in a loose jacket, loose pants, and a hat.
Credit Line:
The Robert L. Stuart Collection, the gift of his widow Mrs. Mary Stuart
Object Number:
S-72
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1860
eMuseum Object ID:
29980
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Mrs. Joseph Hallett
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1728
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 49 1/2 x 40 1/2 in. ( 125.7 x 102.9 cm )
Credit Line:
Bequest of Waldron Phoenix Belknap, Jr.
Object Number:
1950.240
Gallery Label:
The subject is probably Mary (Lawrence) Greenoak, the widow of John Greenoak, who married Joseph Hallett of Newtown, Long Island, in 1728. The portrait was painted in New York, and was based on a mezzotint by John Smith (1699) after Sir Godfrey Kneller's portrait of the Countess of Ranelagh.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1728
eMuseum Object ID:
29838
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Clarkson Crolius, Sr. (1773-1843)
Classification:
Date:
1825
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 30 x 24 in. ( 76.2 x 61 cm )
frame: 39 x 33 in. ( 99.1 x 83.8 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of Clarkson Crolius, Jr.
Object Number:
1863.8
Marks:
signature and date: on back: "Col. Clarkson Crolius / when Speaker of teh House of / Assembly of the State of New York / at 53 Years of Age / Painted by Ezra Ames / Albany 1825"
Gallery Label:
Although this portrait was not included among the nine portraits listed in Ames's account book for 1825, both Bolton and Cortelyou examined the painting and its inscription and pronounced it authentic. A small lithographic print was made from it by F. D'Avignon, an impression of which is owned by the Society.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1825
eMuseum Object ID:
29525
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Mrs. Gerardus Duyckinck II (1733-1811)
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1755-1760
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 42 1/2 x 39 1/4 in. ( 108 x 99.7 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of Mrs. Fanny F. Clark
Object Number:
1923.9
Gallery Label:
Ann Rapelje was the daughter of George and Dina (Middagh) Rapelje of Brooklyn Ferry. She was baptized into the Dutch Church on November 11, 1733, and was married to Gerardus Duyckinck in 1752. She was the mother of Gerardus III (b. 1754), Diana (b. 1759), and Johanna (b. 1760).
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1760
eMuseum Object ID:
29351
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Niagara Falls
Classification:
Date:
1818
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 30 x 40 5/8 in. ( 76.2 x 103.2 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of Mrs. Waldron Phoenix Belknap, Sr., to the Waldron Phoenix Belknap, Jr.,Collection, 1956
Object Number:
1956.3
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1818
eMuseum Object ID:
28979
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Figures for "Battle of Springfield"
Classification:
Medium:
oil on linen
Dimensions:
18 x 12 x 1 in.
Object Number:
1937.1794[dup]
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
0
eMuseum Object ID:
28490
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Landscape
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1848
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 17 3/4 x 29 1/4 in. ( 45.1 x 74.3 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of R. McAllister Lloyd
Object Number:
1969.27
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1848
eMuseum Object ID:
28367
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Ideal Head: A Suggestion from Life
Classification:
Date:
1836
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 27 x 21 1/2 in. ( 68.6 x 54.6 cm )
Framed: 37 3/4 × 32 1/2 × 3 1/4 in. (95.9 × 82.6 × 8.3 cm)
Credit Line:
Gift of the children of the artist, through John Durand
Object Number:
1903.6
Gallery Label:
The Society's Catalogue of the Gallery of Art (1915), p. 38, no. 338, cites this study as a "suggestion from life" and states that it was painted in 1836.
Bibliography:
"Pictures by Durand," The New York Times, April 26, 1903, p. 34.
Catalogue of the Gallery of Art of The New York Historical Society, New York: Printed for the Society, 1915, p. 38.
Executor's Sale, Studies in Oil by Asher B. Durand, N.A., Deceased, Ortgies' Art Gallery, New York, April 13 and 14, 1887, p. 33, no. 394.
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, pp. 70, 128-31, 156-9, 608-9, 616.
Koke, Richard J., American Landscape and Genre Paintings in the New York Historical Society, Vol. I, New York: The New-York Historical Society, 1982, pp. 305.
Ferber, Linda S., ed., Kindred Spirits Asher B. Durand and the American Landscape, Brooklyn Museum, 2007, Chronology.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1836
eMuseum Object ID:
28226
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
John Cole (1784-1851)
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1825-1830
Medium:
Oil on wood panel
Dimensions:
Overall: 30 x 24 1/2 in. ( 76.2 x 62.2 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of Mrs. Kerr Rainsford
Object Number:
1951.346
Gallery Label:
John Cole (Jan Kool) was born in Amsterdam and immigrated to New York around 1804. This portrait was at one time listed as "possibly by Waldo and Jewett." Although the date of the painting would correspond to the early period of their partnership, the style in not theirs.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1830
eMuseum Object ID:
27878
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
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