Collection Highlights
Tammany Bank
Date:
ca. 1875
Object Number:
1937.1237
Medium:
Iron, paint
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Paintings
Mrs. Albert Wyckoff (1778-1855)
Object Number:
1957.103
Date:
ca. 1810
Medium:
Oil on wood panel
Dimensions:
Overall: 32 5/8 x 25 7/8 in. ( 82.9 x 65.7 cm )
Gallery Label:
About 1810 Jarvis painted two adult members of the Wyckoff family, who by coincidence bore names similar to the subject's two sons. These portraits were of an Alexander Robertson Wyckoff (n.d.), owned by the Brooklyn Museum, and Henry L. (sometimes I.) Wyckoff, treasurer of the New York State Chamber of Commerce from 1806 to 1839. Both of these are listed in Dickson, "John Wesley Jarvis" (1949, p. 369, nos. 263 and 264). But no mention is made of the portrait of Mrs. Albert Wyckoff, which...
Bibliography:
"Department of the Museum," Annual Report of the New-York Historical Society for the Year 1954, New York, The New-York Historical Society, 1955, p. 45.
Catalogue of American Portraits in The New-York Historical Society, Vol. 2, New York: The New-York Historical Society, 1974, pp. 914-5.
Carbone, Teresa A., et al., American Paintings in The Brooklyn Museum, Vol. 2, New York: Brooklyn Museum, 2006, pp. 695-6.
Credit Line:
Gift of Mrs. Bayard Verplanck
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
