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  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 Marie 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 cooeperation 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 Marie 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 MARIE 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 Duerer                        80

  PORTRAITS OF TWO LADIES, by Largilliere                             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