Collection Highlights
View from Cozzen's Hotel Near West Point, N.Y.
Date:
1863
Object Number:
S-189
Medium:
Oil on canvas
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Chauncey Mitchell Depew (1834-1928)
Object Number:
1950.142
Date:
1929
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 36 x 26 1/4 in. ( 91.4 x 66.7 cm )
Marks:
signature and date: lower left: "Seymour M. Stone / Né Kameniawski 1929"
Gallery Label:
Depew graduated from Yale University, studied law, and began his practice in Peekskill, New York. In 1866 he was chosen by Commodore Vanderbilt as attorney for the Hudson River and Harlem Railroads, and by 1882 he had risen to the office of vice-president of the newly consolidated New York Central and Hudson River Line; three years later he became president. In 1899 and 1905 he was elected to the U.S. Senate. This posthumous portrait was painted from either a photograph or another painting.
Credit Line:
Gift of the Peekskill Military Academy
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
