Collection Highlights
Plan of the Central Park, New York : Entry No. 4 in the competition
Date:
March 20, 1858
Object Number:
PR.003.234
Medium:
Ink and colored washes
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Luce Center
Charles Patrick Daly (1816-1899)
Object Number:
1946.135
Date:
1874
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 24 x 20 in. ( 61 x 50.8 cm )
Marks:
signature and date: at left: "B. F. Reinhart / 1874"
Gallery Label:
Daly was born in New York to Irish parents who had emigrated from Galway in 1814, and was admitted to the bar in 1839. He was elected to the state assembly in 1843 and was appointed a judge of the New York City Court of Common Pleas the following year. He held the latter position for forty-one years, serving as chief justice from 1858. Daly was president of the American Geographical Society, which commissioned this portrait.
Credit Line:
Gift of the American Geographical Society
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
