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Portraits

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 218 Collections and/or Records:

A Celebrated Chief, Delaware

 Item
Identifier: Art Survey No. 1008
Description

Oil painting depicting three full length portraits, center man wearing decorated coat carrying rifle, man on right wearing decorated coat, single feather and rifle, woman on right wering decorated robe.

Dates: 1853-1870

A. Smythe.

 Item
Identifier: Art Survey No. 957

A.E. Purple.

 Item
Identifier: Art Survey No. 951

Albert F. Bickmore (1839-1914) / Subject's left shoulder "Wm Couper New York"

 Item
Identifier: Art Survey No. 622
Scope and Contents

Portrait bust of Albert Bickmore, AMNH founder and museum educator. Inscription: Extensive on plaque.

Dates: 1909

American Museum of Natural History photographic slides of Fine Art collection

 Collection
Identifier: PSC 46
Scope and Contents Slides of fine art sculptures and paintings held in the American Museum of Natural History. Artwork includes Andy Warhol "Endangered Species" (1983) silkscreens, De Lazslo portrait (1908) of Theodore Roosevelt, Roy Chapman Andrews portrait by Charles Arthur Rose (1937), Williams C. Whitney bust"Moquin Prayer for Rain" sculpture by H. A. MacNeill"Theodore Roosevelt as a Rough Rider" by Frederick MacMonnies, portraits of Childs Frick, Morris K. Jesup and others. Three watercolors by Louis...
Dates: circa 1980s-1990s

Art Survey No. 208: Henry Fairfield Osborn (1857-1935) portrait, undated

 Item — Frame 1: [Barcode: 100119120]
Identifier: Art Survey No. 208
Scope and Contents

Painting of man in his academic robe, holding book, 3/4 view. Inscription: Frame plate "Henry Fairfield Osborn/Fourth President/of the/American Museum of Natural History/February 10, 1908". Osborn was A.M.N.H. President from 1908 to 1933, paleontologist, naturalist, author; growth of museum and its collections are attributed to him.

Dates: undated

Art Survey No. 231: William A. Haines (1822-1880), circa 1880

 Item
Identifier: Art Survey No. 231
Scope and Contents

Portrait of man seated wearing suit, three-quarter view. Founder and Trustee 1869-1880, also an amateur conchologist. Inscription: Reverse "W A Haines." Frame: Gilt wood, floral motif, 55 7/8 x 42. Framer's label "B. Butler & Co., NY, second framer's label "DDD, Inc.".

Dates: circa 1880

Art Survey No. 233: Morris K. Jesup (1830-1908) / UL "Julian Story", 1909

 Item
Identifier: Art Survey No. 233
Scope and Contents

Man in business suit seated in green leather chair, holding book in left hand, three-quarter view. Museum President 1881-1908, and founder. Frame: Gilt wood, gesso, bundle of reeds design, 60 1/4 x 50.

Dates: 1909

Art Survey No. 258: Honorable Joseph H. Choate (1832-1917) portrait, 1911

 Item — Frame 1: [Barcode: 100119103]
Identifier: Art Survey No. 258
Scope and Contents

Portrait of seated man in academic robe with hand holding coat lapel and other arm on arm rest. Inscription: Frame plate "Honorable Joseph H. Choate/A Founder of the American Museum/and a Patron of the Arts and Sciences/Painted by the Princess Lwoff-Parlaghy/and presented by her to the American Museum of Natural History/February 29, 1911. Choate was American lawyer and diplomat; founder and trustee of A.M.N.H.

Dates: 1911