"New York Painting Begins: Eighteenth-Century Portraits" Exhibition
The New-York Historical Society
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The New-York Historical Society holds one of the nation's premiere collections of eighteenth-century American portraits. During this formative century a small group of native-born painters and European émigrés created images that represent a broad swath of elite colonial New York society-- landowners and tradesmen, and later Revolutionaries and Loyalists-- while reflecting the area's Dutch roots and its strong ties with England.
[Image: John Durand "The Rapalje Children" (1768) oil on canvas]
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Schedule
from September 15, 2009 to March 25, 2010
Artist(s)
Benjamin West, Charles Willson Peale, John Watson, Nehemiah Partridge, John Durand, Gerardus Duyckinck et al.