Collection Highlights
Central Park Competition Entry No. 29
Date:
March, 1858
Object Number:
PR.003.233
Medium:
Ink and Wash
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Luce Center
Edward King (1795-1836)
Object Number:
1958.11
Date:
1801
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 24 1/8 x 20 1/8 in. ( 61.3 x 51.1 cm )
Gallery Label:
Edward King spent the first years of his life in England where his father, Rufus King (1755-1827), was the minister to the Court of St. James's. This portrait of him as a child was painted in London, while Trumbull was there as part of the Jay Treaty commission. The artist was a friend of Edward's father. This portrait came to the Society as part of the bequest of Edward's great-grandson, also named Rufus King.
Bibliography:
Sizer, Theodore, The Works of Colonel John Trumbull: Artist of the American Revolution, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1967, p. 46
Catalogue of American Portraits in The New-York Historical Society, New Haven: Yale University Press, Vol. 1, 1974, p. 112.
Credit Line:
Bequest of Rufus King
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
