Collection Highlights
Group of Chicago Zouave Cadets
Date:
Object Number:
PR.049.FF.MIL.CHIZOU
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Museum Collections
James Lenox (1772-1839)
Object Number:
1950.229
Date:
ca. 1810-1815
Medium:
Oil on wood panel
Dimensions:
Overall: 28 3/8 x 23 1/8 in. ( 72.1 x 58.7 cm )
Marks:
label: on back: "James Lenox / brother of Robert Lenox"
Gallery Label:
James Lenox, the son of James and Elizabeth (Sproat) Lenox of Kirkcudbright, Scotland, came to America when he was about sixteen years old to join his older brother, Robert, who was by then a prosperous merchant in New York. In partnership with William Maitland he established the firm of Lenox and Maitland, merchants, in 1796. Lenox returned to Scotland in 1818 and remained at his estate at Dalskairth for the remainder of his life. Lenox was the great-great-granduncle of the donor.
Bibliography:
Dickson, Harold E., John Wesley Jarvis: American Painter, 1780-1840, New York: The New-York Historical Society, 1949, pp. 344, 422.
Phillips, John Marshall, et. al, The Waldron Phoenix Belknap, Jr. Collections of Portraits and Silver, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 1955, p. 40-1.
Catalogue of American Portraits in The New-York Historical Society, Vol. 1, New York: The New-York Historical Society, 1974, pp. 449-50.
Credit Line:
Bequest of Waldron Phoenix Belknap, Jr.
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
