Collection Highlights
Thoughts on African Colonization
Date:
1832
Object Number:
LIB.E448.G24.1832
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James Boulter Stokes (1804-1881)
Object Number:
1944.268
Date:
1872
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 92 x 66 in. ( 233.7 x 167.6 cm )
Marks:
signature and date: lower right: "D. Huntington / 1872"
Gallery Label:
The subject was the son of Thomas Stokes, a merchant, and Elizabeth Ann (Boulter) Stokes who came to New York from England in 1798. Stokes was a partner in Phelps, Dodge and Company, New York, and Phelps, Dodge and Company, Liverpool. With his son Anson Phelps Stokes he successfully entered the banking business in 1879. His portrait was a gift to the Society from his grandson.
Bibliography:
Catalogue of American Portraits in The New-York Historical Society, New Haven: Yale University Press, Vol. 2, 1974, p. 767.
Credit Line:
Gift of I. N. Phelps Stokes
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
