Daniel D. Tompkins (1774-1825)

Object Number: 
1954.213
Date: 
ca. 1812
Medium: 
Oil on wood panel
Dimensions: 
Overall: 29 5/8 x 22 3/4 in. ( 75.2 x 57.8 cm )
Gallery Label: 
A native of Scarsdale, New York, the subject served as governor of the state from 1807 to 1817. He also served as a justice of the New York State Supreme Court, and was vice-president for two terms under James Monroe.
Bibliography: 
M. Knoedler & Co., Washington Irving and His Circle: A Loan Exhibition Observing the Restoration of "Sunnyside," New York: Knoedler Galleries, 1946, pp. 24-5. M. Knoedler & Co., Catalogue: American Paintings of the 18th & Early 19th Century in Our Current Collection, New York: M. Knoedler & Co., 1946, No. 37. Dickson, Harold E., John Wesley Jarvis: American Painter, 1780-1840, New York: The New-York Historical Society, 1949, pp. 209, 332, 365, 439. Portraits of Eminent People, exh. Cat. Montclair Art Museum, 1949, no. 13. Auction Catalogue for Sale no. 1558, Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., New York, December 9-11, 1954, pp. 50-51, lot no. 318. "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. 71-91. Luhrs, Kathleen, and Shadwell, Wendy J., The New-York Historical Society Quarterly Bulletin, Vol. 58, no. 4, October 1975, pp. 257-79. Catalogue of American Portraits in The New-York Historical Society, Vol. 2, New York: The New-York Historical Society, 1974, pp. 802-3. Shepherd, Barnett, "Daniel D. Tompkins and His Portraits," Staten Island Historian, Vol. 8, no. 2, Winter-Spring, 1991, p. 4. Cornog, Evan, and Whelan, Richard, Hats in the Ring: An Illustrated American History of Presidential Campaigns, New York: Random House, 2000, p. 45. Bernstein, Peter L., Wedding of the Waters: The Erie Canal and the Making of a Great Nation, New York: W.W> Norton & Company, 2005, n.p. Zygmont, Bryan J., Portraiture and Politics in New York City, 1790-1825, Ph.D. Diss., University of Maryland, College Park, 2006, p. 210. "Daniel D. Tompkins," Encyclopaedia Britannica's Guide to American Presidents, 2011, http://www.britannica.com/presidents/article-9072841.
Credit Line: 
Gift of Edmund Astley Prentis
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Creative: Tronvig Group