Collection Highlights
Afternoon Hastings Landing. Palisades Rocks in Shadow, New York
Date:
1836-37
Object Number:
1952.410
Medium:
Watercolor, gouache, graphite, scratching out, and touches of black ink and glazing on paper laid on brown card
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Peter Moller (1809-1879)
Object Number:
1957.230
Date:
1858
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 30 x 25 in. ( 76.2 x 63.5 cm )
Marks:
inscription: on paper label on stretcher: "Peter Moller born in 1809. Died 1879 / Painted by Charles Loring Elliott in 1858"
Gallery Label:
The subject was born in Rahde, Hanover, Germany. He began his career in the sugar business in London, and when he immigrated to New York, in 1837, became superintendant of the Woolsey and Woolsey sugar house. In 1849 he entered the firm of Havemeyer and Moller, and he later acquired sole interest in the New-York Steam Refining Co. Moller founded the Evangelicala Lutheran Church and the Lutheran Asylum.
Credit Line:
Purchase, Abbott-Lenox Fund
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
