Collection Highlights
Twenty-third Street west of Sixth Avenue
Date:
1900
Object Number:
PR.020.FF.2
Medium:
Photograph
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Samuel Garretson Verbryck (1761-1849)
Object Number:
1951.88
Date:
1840
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 30 1/4 x 25 in. ( 76.8 x 63.5 cm )
Marks:
inscription: on stretcher: "Portrait of Samuel Ver Bryck / Tappan NY 1840"
Gallery Label:
The subject was the son of the Rev. Samuel Verbryck (1721-84), minister of the Dutch Reformed Church of Tappan, New York, and Susanna (Van Der Linde) Verbryck. He was a soldier in the Continental Army, Supervisor of Orangetown, Rockland County, New York, and a member of the Committee of 1821 to revise the New York state constitution. The artist, his son, chose to spell his surname "Ver Bryck."
Credit Line:
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