Collection Highlights
Elisha Kent Kane, M.D. (1820-1857)
Date:
1858
Object Number:
1859.1
Medium:
Oil on canvas
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Jeremiah Howard Gilman (1831-1909)
Object Number:
1941.360
Date:
1878
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 27 x 22 in. ( 68.6 x 55.9 cm )
Marks:
signature and date: upper left: "Cyrenius Hall /1878"
Gallery Label:
Gilman, a native of Thomaston, Maine, graduated from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point in 1856 and served with distinction in the Civil War. Although he retired from the military in 1895 he was promoted to full colonel nine years later. He died in Brooklyn, August 26, 1909. When this portrait was given to the Society it was called only "Colonel Gilman." Identification of the subject is based on comparison with a photograph in the National Cyclopedia of American Biography, vol. 24 (1935).
Credit Line:
Gift of Adelaide Milton de Groot
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
