Front Screen A: Focus on Colonial Painting
The Brooklyn Museum holds collections of colonial art from the Dutch and English settlements on the eastern seaboard, as well as from the vast Spanish colonies in Peru, Mexico, and what is now the southwestern United States. These works, created during the period before independence in these regions, form the chronological beginnings of the Museum’s collections of American paintings.
Artists in all of these thriving colonial cultures drew on European models and conventions. Those traditions were sometimes communicated to them through artists immigrating or visiting from Europe; more often, they were introduced by means of imported paintings and, especially, prints. In Spanish and North American colonial portraits alike, artists adapted the postures, costumes, and background accessories of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century European painting to denote the social standing of the sitter. Portrait painting dominated the mostly Protestant North American markets well into the nineteenth century. The preponderance of religious subjects by Latin American artists, on the other hand, reflects the influence of the Catholic Church’s efforts to sustain the faith of Spanish colonial populations and to convert indigenous peoples. The Spanish colonial devotional images displayed here are also based on European visual traditions, but many of these religious paintings were greatly enriched and localized by the incorporation of images of indigenous peoples, places, flora, and fauna.
Although North American and Spanish colonial paintings were once relegated to the status of provincial reflections of mainstream European culture, recent study has demonstrated that artistic practice in political and economic colonies was not exclusively a one-way matter of cultural dependency. The Brooklyn Museum’s collections of colonial art offer us many opportunities to see the ways in which local artists and patrons at first employed and then adapted and even transformed such imported elements to serve local requirements and, as time passed, to increasingly reflect their own values.
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Visible Storage: Case 24, Screen A (Paintings)
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14.556
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Albert Pinkham Ryder
The Waste of Waters is Their Field
early 1880s
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26.186
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Frederick Carl Frieseke
Le Pouldu Landscape
ca. 1901
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34.514
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Louis Lang
The Invalid
1870
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41.1084
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Robert Brackman
Still Life with Discarded Pitcher
ca. 1940
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45.133
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Elliot Orr
The Passing Storm
1940
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48.197
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William Stanley Haseltine
After a Shower -- Nahant, Massachusetts
ca. 1864
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49.7
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Walter Tandy Murch
The Circle
ca. 1948
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54.157
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Morris Hirshfield
Girl with Dog
1940
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66.83
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Irene Rice Pereira
Light Extending Itself
1964
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73.101
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Joyce Kozloff
Buffalo Dance
1973
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81.307
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Walter Tandy Murch
[Untitled] (Giant Scintillation Counter)
circa 1955
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85.120.1
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Hamilton Easter Field
Niagara Falls and Rainbow
n.d.
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85.289.1
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Mark Rothko
Untitled
1930-1935
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85.289.2
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Mark Rothko
Untitled
1947
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1996.150.24
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Walter Tandy Murch
Radio
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Visible Storage: Case 24, Screen B (Paintings)
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41.1275.189
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Unknown
Saint Isidore the Farmer
ca. 1750
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52.166.16
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Édouard Pingret
Portrait of Doña María Josefa Romero de Terreros y Gómez de Parada
ca. 1865
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62.76
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Philip Howard Francis Evergood
The Tooters
1961
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1992.108
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Eastman Johnson
Portrait of a Child
1879
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2001.127
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Peter Nagy
Luxor, Sikandre, Hue
1990
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2013.24
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Frederick James Boston
The Morning News
1887
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Visible Storage: Case 24, Screen C (Paintings)
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20.638
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Charles Willson Peale
Portrait of Mrs. William Strachan
ca. 1770-1772
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24.67
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Thomas Nast
Caricature of William Cullen Bryant
1866
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27.205
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American
Portrait of a Woman (possibly Mrs. Samuel Partridge)
ca. 1765
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30.1149a-b
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Abbott H. Thayer
Head of a Boy (Recto) and Head of a Girl (Verso)
ca. 1918-1919
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31.765
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William Sartain
Arab Head
ca. 1880
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63.196
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Leopold Seyffert
My Family
1928
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12.920
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Henry Raschen
Salomon, Medicine Man
ca. 1894
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Visible Storage: Case 24, Screen D (Paintings)
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24.100
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Ignaz Marcel Gaugengigl
On the Promenade
before 1924
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41.1275.181
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Mauricio García
The Virgin of Mercy with Three Saints
mid-18th century
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41.1275.182
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Unknown
Virgin de Chiquinquira
n.d.
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41.1275.185
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Cuzco School
The Nativity
mid-18th century
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42.199
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Luigi Lucioni
A Barre Granite Shed
1931
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50.115
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Thomas Eakins
Home Scene
ca. 1871
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55.13
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Henry Lee McFee
Leaves and Blossoms
before 1955
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70.101.1
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Edward Henry Potthast
Rocks and Sea
ca. 1923
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85.121.1
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William Jacob Hays
Two Orchids, Brassia Lanceana, Cattleya Labiata
1869
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85.121.2
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William Jacob Hays
Three Orchids, Acropera, Peristeria Elata, Cattleya Bicolor
1869
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1991.147.2
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Isabel Bishop
Study for "Soda Fountain with Passers By"
1960
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2006.42
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George Lovett Kingsland Morris
Indian Composition No. 6
1938
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2020.13.2
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Charles Ethan Porter
Still Life with Fruit Basket
1878
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Visible Storage: Case 24, Screen E (Paintings)
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23.61
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Jeremiah Theus
Elizabeth Rothmahler
1757
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27.946
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John Greenwood
Portrait of a Lady (possibly Mrs. John Hubbard, née Elizabeth Gooch, later Mrs. John Franklin)
ca. 1748
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27.948
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American
Portrait of a Man (possibly Captain Samuel Partridge)
ca. 1765
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51.193.1
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Ralph Earl
Robert Boyd
1788
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67.233
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George Caleb Bingham
General Francis Preston Blair, Jr.
1871
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68.213.1
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William Sidney Mount
Jeromus Johnson
1832
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1999.54.2
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George Augustus Baker Jr.
John Claflin Southwick
1869 and 1875
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1999.54.3
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George Augustus Baker Jr.
Ella M. Clapp Southwick
1869
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2013.55.1
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Unknown
Mr. Phyfe
ca. 1835
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2013.55.2
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Unknown
Mrs. Phyfe
ca. 1835
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2013.55.3
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Unknown
Sarah Phyfe
ca. 1840-1845
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Visible Storage: Case 24, Screen F (Paintings)
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11.521
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Charles Frederic Ulrich
Head of an Old Man
ca. 1876
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21.1
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John Wollaston
Portrait of a Man (possibly Sir Charles Hardy)
ca. 1758
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32.1605
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John Singleton Copley
Portrait of John Lane
ca. 1770
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33.25
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Eastman Johnson
Captain Folger of Nantucket
1880
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39.609
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John Hesselius
Mrs. Elizabeth Smith (née Elizabeth Chew)
1762
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48.206.83
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Arequipa School
Our Lady of Cocharcas on the Altar
18th century
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52.41
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William Johnston
Thomas Mumford VI
1763
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53.180.1
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José María Calderón
The Office of Don Manuel Romero de Terreros in Paris (Gabinete de Don Manuel Romero de Terreros en París)
1870
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80.80
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William Johnston
Mrs.Thomas Mumford VI
1763
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1991.11
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Ellen Phelan
Island in the River - River Test
1989
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1999.54.4
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George Augustus Baker Jr.
Horace Southwick
1877
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1999.54.5
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George Augustus Baker Jr.
John Caflin Southwick, Jr.
1870
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1999.54.6
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Unknown
Marjorie Mead
ca. 1895
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Visible Storage: Case 24, Screen G (Paintings)
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16.26
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Thomas Sully
Cornelius Ver Bryck
1833
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21.56
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Thomas Sully
Cumberland Dugan
1821
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98.2
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Charles Christian Heinrich Nahl
John Graham
1851
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98.3
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Charles Christian Heinrich Nahl
Mrs. John Graham
1849
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07.273
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Eastman Johnson
The Savoyard Boy
1853
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23.50
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John Neagle
Portrait of a Man
ca. 1845
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44.68
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Abraham Walkowitz
Self-Portrait 1903
1903
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51.217
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Ralph Eleazer Whiteside Earl
Mrs. Ebenezer Porter (Lucy "Patty" Pierce Merwin)
1804
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62.51.2
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Joseph Stella
Portrait of Moses Soyer
1944
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67.182
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Niles Spencer
Camp Chair
1933
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79.87
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John Linton Chapman
The Appian Way
1869
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87.140
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Unknown
John Lane, after John Singleton Copley
ca. 1801-1810
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Visible Storage: Case 24, Screen H (Paintings)
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11.549
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Henry Inman
Mrs. Robert Lowden
ca. 1840
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18.24
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Walter Libbey
Alexander Brown
ca. 1848
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18.25
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Walter Libbey
Self-Portrait
ca. 1850
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18.49
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Sanford Robinson Gifford
Study for a Self-Portrait
ca. 1848
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21.55
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Gilbert Stuart
Mrs. Robert Nicholls (Henrietta Overing) Auchmuty
1816
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97.33
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Daniel Huntington
The Sketcher: A Portrait of Mlle Rosina, a Jewess
1858
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25.806
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Ezra Ames
Phares Gould
ca. 1830-1835
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33.32
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Unknown
Sketch for Ceiling Decoration
17th century
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42.202
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Thomas Sully
Jane Cooper Sully
ca. 1835
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68.92.1
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William Sidney Mount
Barnet Johnson
ca. 1839
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68.213.2
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William Sidney Mount
Mrs. Geromus Johnson
1832
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77.219.1
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Seymour Joseph Guy
Portrait of a Gentleman
1855
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77.219.2
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Seymour Joseph Guy
Portrait of a Lady
1856
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Visible Storage: Case 24, Screen I (Paintings)
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21.130
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Matthew Harris Jouett
Thomas Smith
ca. 1820
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24.80
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John Wollaston
William Allen
ca. 1756
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33.21
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Emil Fuchs
Henry Wolf
1907
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41.1275.178
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Circle of Diego Quispe Tito
Virgin of Carmel Saving Souls in Purgatory
late 17th century
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43.112
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Unknown
The Carpenter's Shop in Nazareth
late 18th century
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66.85
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Willard Leroy Metcalf
Early Spring Afternoon--Central Park
1911
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X797
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Peruvian
Nuestra Senora del Rosario (Virgin of the Rosary with Worshipers)
18th century
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Visible Storage: Case 24, Screen J (Paintings)
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18.38
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Stephen Douglas Volk
William Macbeth
1917
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25.182
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Wilford S. Conrow
Professor William H. Goodyear
1916
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27.947
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John Smibert
Portrait of a Woman (possibly Mrs. James [Hester Stanton Plaisted] Gooch)
1730
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27.954
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Ethan Allen Greenwood
William Gooch
1816
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32.199.156
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Emil Fuchs
Emily Post
ca. 1906
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33.137
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Eastman Johnson
Self Portrait
ca. 1890
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42.301
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Unknown
William Henry Eaves
ca. 1856
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60.33
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George Maduro Peixotto
Portrait of Fedelia Wise
1886
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85.23
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Samuel Finley Breese Morse
Jonas Platt
1828
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87.100
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Dove Bradshaw
Without Title
1986
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2013.58
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Nehemiah Partridge
Anna (Antie) Van Vechten
1719
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Visible Storage: Case 24, Screen K (Paintings)
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97.9
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William Dunlap
Robert Snow
1831
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26.521
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Charles Loring Elliott
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
ca. 1842-1846
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28.208
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Jacques Amans
Portrait of an Unknown Man
1845
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28.331
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Benjamin Rutherford Fitz
Portrait of Edwina M. Post
ca. 1890
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29.62
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Abbott H. Thayer
Chadwick's Dog
1874
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44.67
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Moise Kisling
Portrait of Abraham Walkowitz
ca. 1944
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52.166.5
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Mexican
Doña Josefa de la Cotera y Calvo de la Puerta, Marquesa of Rivas Cacho
1816
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53.234
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Manuel Joachim de Franca
Matthew Huizinga Messchert
1830
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69.41
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Lydia Field Emmet
The Brothers
1909
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78.212
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Susan Macdowell Eakins
Portrait of Leroy Ireland
1910
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78.263
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John C. Hardy
Down
1977
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1999.54.1
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George Augustus Baker Jr.
Henry Ward Beecher
1874
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Visible Storage: Case 24, Screen L (Paintings)
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13.69
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Robert Swain Gifford
Trees and Meadow
ca. 1885
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18.40
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Samuel Lovett Waldo
James K. Bogert
1819
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33.4.2
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John Wesley Jarvis
Mrs. Eleanor Doran and Her Daughter Margaret
ca. 1830-1834
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33.4.3
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Charles Backofen
Mrs. Joseph Kelly
1850
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33.16.1
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Charles Cromwell Ingham
Mrs. Theodore Camp
ca. 1845
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41.1250
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Unknown
Madonna and Child
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41.1275.176
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Unknown
Marriage of the Virgin and Joseph
late 17th-early 18th century
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41.1275.186
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Unknown
Christ Before Caiaphas
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41.1275.190
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Cuzco School
Saint John of God
18th century
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41.1275.226
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Unknown
Portrait of Philip II, King of Spain
18th-early 19th century
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2012.41
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Lima School
A Merry Company on the Banks of the Rímac River
ca.1800
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Visible Storage: Case 24, Screen M (Paintings)
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41.152
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American
John Van Cortlandt
ca. 1731
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41.1275.187
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Unknown
Archangel Raphael
late 17th or early 18th century
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41.1275.192
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Pedro Nolasco y Lara
The Legend of San Augustine
18th century
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45.59
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Allen Tucker
The Blue Posts
1905
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52.166.7
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Ignacio Ayala
Don José María Gómez de Cervantes y Altamirano de Velasco, Count of Santiago de Calimaya
1802
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52.166.18
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Mexican
Coat of Arms of the Gómez de Cervantes y Altamirano de Velasco Family
ca. 1802
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69.8
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Norman Rockwell
The Tattoo Artist
1944
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69.83
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Newell Convers Wyeth
Vision of New York
1926
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Visible Storage: Case 24, Screen N (Paintings)
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16.25
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Gilbert Stuart
Colonel Isaac Barré
1785
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99.4
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James Frothingham
Reverend Dr. Cutler
ca. 1860
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24.81
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John Wollaston
Mrs. William Allen
ca. 1756
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26.150
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John Wesley Jarvis
Albert Wyckoff
1810
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27.203
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John Smibert
James Gooch
1730
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35.1057
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American
Gentleman of the Breckenridge Family of Virginia
ca. 1750
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63.150
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Frederic Edwin Church
Tropical Scenery
1873
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68.208
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Chester Harding
The Honorable Russell Freeman
ca. 1830
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70.102
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Jefferson Gauntt
Portrait of a Young Lady
1838
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74.166
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Charles Waldo Jenkins
Portrait of Ellen Ely
1857
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76.156
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Charles Christian Heinrich Nahl
Augustus Graham
1850
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