Catharine Augusta Livingston was the third daughter of Judge Henry Brockholst Livingston and his first wife, Catharine (Keteltas) Livingston. She married Archibald McVickar at her father's residence at Bloomingdale, New York, on August 30, 1809. Her portrait was a gift to the Society from her grandson and great-grandson.

Edward Everett was a clergyman, educator and statesman who served in the U.S. House of Representatives (1825-35) and as the governor of Massachusetts (1836-39). After serving four years as U.S. minister to Great Britain, he returned to Harvard, his alma mater, as president of the college (1846-49). Everett was a celebrated orator; one of his best-known speeches was delivered just prior to Lincoln's Gettysburg Address.

This object was once part of the folk art collection of Elie Nadelman (1882-1946), the avant-garde sculptor. From 1924 to 1934, Nadelman's collection was displayed in his Museum of Folk Arts, located in the Riverdale section of the Bronx. The Historical Society purchased Nadelman's entire collection in 1937.

Wolf and lamb was listed in the 1887 Hennecke's Florentine Statuary catalog selling for $3.50. The catalog described the piece as follows: "The resemblance between persons and animals is often quite apparent. The two lads bear evidence to this fact. Without any deformity in their faces the likeness to wolf and lamb are strikingly depicted"

Fidelia Marshall Lamson was a pupil of the promising young pianist Richard Hoffman; the two fell in love and, defying society and their parents, eloped. Mrs. Hoffman became the mother of four children. She was a woman of culture and intellect, and her daughter Malvina, the sculptor, in Heads and Tales (1936, p. 52) recalled the time when she and her mother lived in Paris: "During my student years in Paris my mother . . . knew all my friends and quickly endeared herself to them by her sympathy and quiet charm. Having been born and brought up for the first years of her life in Paris, French was like her native language. . . . [Her] breadth of literary and musical interests soon gathered many friends about us. In our modest little studio there was always a piano, and many were the Bohemian musical evenings that we enjoyed there."

Possibly a copy of the sculpture at the St. Gaudens National Historic Site #1466

Commodore Vanderbilt, founder of the Vanderbilt fortunes, was born at Port Richmond, Staten Island, the son of Cornelius and Phebe (Hand) Vanderbilt. A tycoon in finance, railroads, steamships, and other areas of business, he rose to be one of the wealthiest Americans of the 19th century.

Sitter is possibly one of two people, Oliver Hazard Perry, (1785-1819) or Matthew Calbraith Perry, (1794-1858)