Category: Art
This catalogue describes the paintings in the Gallery of Art of The New York Historical Society, with two hundred and eighty-six miniatures, comprising the Marié Collection and seventy-six objects of Sculpture.
Born in Leicester, Mass.; died in Bolton, Conn. He painted portraits in Connecticut in 1775 and after the Revolution went to England, where he studied under Benjamin West, retur...
12. Part 12Born at Troyes, and resided at Rome twenty-two years, where he acquired the name "the Roman." He studied under Jean Boucher and in the school of Simon Vouet at Paris, where he d...
10. Part 10She is not in tears; but her aspect is that of one who listens in sadness; her eyes are cast down, and her thoughts are of the home of her youth in the land of Moab. Over her le...
13. Part 13Called Il Garofolo, from the place of his nativity. He ranked at the head of the Ferrarese School. He was an universal painter, though he devoted himself mostly to sacred history.
14. Part 142. Part 2Painted at the request of the Society, 1841, from the supposed original by HANS HOLBEIN, which was the property of the late Richard Biddle, author of a Memoir of Cabot. A full a...
3. Part 3This gallant charge was made near Sangster's Station, Va., March 9, 1862. Lieut. Hidden, with fourteen of the 1st N. Y. Cavalry, charged a rebel outpost of one hundred and fifty...
4. Part 4Thomas Jefferson Bryan was the son of Guy Bryan and Martha Matlock, his wife. He was born at "Spring Hill," Philadelphia, Pa., about 1800, and died at sea, May 14, 1870, on boar...
9. Part 9Erected by the Colony of New York, September 7, 1770, at the intersection of Wall and William streets. It was mutilated by the British soldiers soon after their occupation of Ne...
1. Part 1This catalogue describes the paintings in the Gallery of Art of The New York Historical Society, with two hundred and eighty-six miniatures, comprising the Marié Collection and...
5. Part 5Very few Raphaels of this period exist. Those which are in the Vatican and the Louvre, show, in style and handling, an exact similarity to these pictures, which is absolutely co...
6. Part 6This is the portrait of a sister to the Duke whose portrait, representing him holding an orange, is in the Louvre, and which was long attributed to VANDYKE; and the donor, with...
7. Part 7He is represented as seven or eight years old. He wears a blue scarf indicating his rank. From the collection of M. de Mont Louis, a devoted legitimist, who died at a very advan...
8. Part 8A Dutch painter, of whose life little is known, but whose manner of handling is praised by Karel Van Mander, the art commentator of the seventeenth century, as being superior to...
15. Part 15Members, on their election, pay an initiation fee of Twenty Dollars, which includes dues for the current year, and annually thereafter Ten Dollars as dues; or a life-membership...