CATALOGUE
OF THE
GALLERY OF ART
OF
THE NEW YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY

NEW YORK

PRINTED FOR THE SOCIETY

1915

[OFFICERS OF THE SOCIETY]

PRESIDENT,
JOHN ABEEL WEEKES.
FIRST VICE-PRESIDENT,
WILLIAM MILLIGAN SLOANE.
SECOND VICE-PRESIDENT,
WALTER LISPENARD SUYDAM.
THIRD VICE-PRESIDENT,
GERARD BEEKMAN.
FOURTH VICE-PRESIDENT,
FRANCIS ROBERT SCHELL.
FOREIGN CORRESPONDING SECRETARY,
ARCHER MILTON HUNTINGTON.
DOMESTIC CORRESPONDING SECRETARY,
JAMES BENEDICT.
RECORDING SECRETARY,
FANCHER NICOLL.
TREASURER,
FREDERIC DELANO WEEKES.
LIBRARIAN,
ROBERT HENDRE KELBY.

[EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE]

FIRST CLASS—FOR ONE YEAR, ENDING 1916.

ACOSTA NICHOLS,
STANLEY W. DEXTER,
FREDERICK TREVOR HILL.

SECOND CLASS—FOR TWO YEARS, ENDING 1917.

FREDERIC DELANO WEEKES,
PAUL R. TOWNE,
R. HORACE GALLATIN.

THIRD CLASS—FOR THREE YEARS, ENDING 1918.

RICHARD HENRY GREENE,
JAMES BENEDICT,
ARCHER M. HUNTINGTON.

FOURTH CLASS—FOR FOUR YEARS, ENDING 1919.

BENJAMIN W. B. BROWN,
J. ARCHIBALD MURRAY.
JAMES BENEDICT, Chairman.
ROBERT H. KELBY, Secretary.

[The President, Vice-Presidents, Recording Secretary, Treasurer, and Librarian are members of the Executive Committee.]

[PREFACE]

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.

The New York Gallery of Fine Arts, presented to the Society in 1858, with paintings donated to the Society at various times, are numbered 1 to 488 inclusive. Any notice of this collection would be deficient which should fail to commemorate the name of Luman Reed, Patron of American Art. In this connection the Society was chiefly indebted to the liberality and cordial coöperation of one of their most valued members, who was himself the chief promoter of the original design of the New York Gallery of Fine Arts, Mr. Jonathan Sturges.

The Bryan Collection, presented to the Society in 1867 by the late Thomas J. Bryan, numbers three hundred and eighty-one paintings and are designated by the letter B. before each number.

The Durr Collection, presented to the Society in 1882 by the executors of the late Louis Durr, numbers, with subsequent additions, one hundred and eighty-one paintings, which are designated by the letter D. before each number.

Short biographical sketches of deceased artists represented in the above collections have been added, together with indexes to Artists, portraits and donors.

The Marié Collection of miniatures is arranged alphabetically by subjects and is not included in the index of portraits.

[CONTENTS]


	PAGES
Officers of the Society	[v]
Executive Committee	[vi]
Preface	[vii]
List of Illustrations	[xi]
Sketch of Luman Reed	[2]
New York Gallery of Fine Arts and Reed Collection with Paintings Donated to the Gallery of the Society	[3]-[53]
Sketch of Thomas J. Bryan	[56]
Bryan Collection of Paintings	[57]-[100]
Sketch of Louis Durr	[102]
Durr Collection of Paintings	[103]-[118]
Peter Marié Collection of Miniatures	[121]-[138]
Sculpture	[141]-[148]
Biographical Sketches of Artists	[151]-[205]
Index of Portraits	[209]-[213]
Index of Sculpture	[214]
Index of Artists	[215]-[220]
Index of Donors	[221]-[223]
Presidents of the Society	[224]

[ILLUSTRATIONS]


	FACING PAGE
Portrait of Asher B. Durand, by Himself	[42]
Portrait of Thomas J. Bryan, by W. O. Stone	[56]
A Virgin and Child, with Four Saints, by Guido of Sienna	[58]
Knights at a Tournament, by Giotto di Bondone	[60]
The Birth of St. John the Baptist, by Uccello	[62]
Adoration of the Infant Christ, by Macrino d'Alba	[64]
The Crucifixion, by Andrea Mantegna	[66]
Portrait of a Jansenist, by Phillippe De Champagne	[68]
The Crucifixion, by Jan Van Eyck	[72]
Portrait, by Paul Rembrandt	[74]
Portrait of a Knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece, by Rubens	[76]
William, Prince of Orange (William III), by Gerard Terburg	[78]
St. George and the Dragon, by Albrecht Dürer	[80]
Portraits of Two Ladies, by Largillière	[86]
Portrait of John Singleton Copley, by Himself	[90]
Portrait of Charles Wilson Peale, by Benjamin West	[92]
Bust of Louis Durr, by Baerer	[102]
The Three Marys, by Luini	[116]

THE NEW YORK GALLERY OF FINE ARTS

AND

REED COLLECTION

WITH PAINTINGS DONATED TO THE GALLERY OF THE SOCIETY

[LUMAN REED]

Luman Reed was born in Green River, Columbia County, N. Y., in 1785, and died in 1836. He removed when a boy to Coxsackie, N. Y., where he was educated in an ordinary school at the expense of an uncle. Later he was employed in a country store and subsequently became the partner and brother-in-law of his employer.

He made frequent trips to New York City on a sloop called the "Shakespeare," belonging to the firm, selling produce of the farms around Coxsackie and purchasing goods in New York for his country store. Later he became a merchant in New York and between the years 1815 and 1832 he gained a fortune. It was then that he began to gratify other instincts and art attracted his attention. He became the patron of American Art and sought the acquaintance of artists, interesting himself in their labors, giving them many commissions for work.

Mr. Reed lived at 13 Greenwich Street, this city, the third story of which building he used as a picture gallery, to which visitors were admitted one day each week. This room was also a meeting place for the artists and literary men of the time. The paintings after Mr. Reed's death were purchased by his friends and subsequently constituted the New York Gallery of Fine Arts which, after an uncertain existence of about twelve years, was forced to close its affairs. Eighty of these paintings, presented in 1858, are now in the possession of this Society and known as the New York Gallery of Fine Arts.

The death of Mr. Reed was greatly lamented by the artists of his time and his name has come down to this generation as the Patron of American Art.