Collection Highlights
Proposed Coat of Arms for New Amsterdam, New Netherland: Preparatory Drawing for a Presentation to the Dutch West India Company
Date:
ca. 1630
Object Number:
1885.5
Medium:
Black ink and wash, watercolor, red and black chalk, and red gouache, with contours incised by a stylus on laid on paper, mounted on card
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Lyman Candee (1796-1857)
Object Number:
1951.24
Date:
ca. 1835
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 30 1/4 x 25 in. ( 76.8 x 63.5 cm )
Gallery Label:
Lyman Candee was elected to the New York State Assembly in 1847. This portrait, a gift from the sitter's granddaughter-in-law, is a somewhat provincial version of the style then being practiced by Asher B. Durand and the young Charles Loring Elliott, and was probably painted in upstate New York, possibly in the Albany area. The style of the coat would suggest a date of around 1835, which would agree with the age of the subject, who appears to be in his mid-to-late thirties.
Credit Line:
Gift of the Estate of Mrs. C. Lyman Candee
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
