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18th and 19th Century

Jun 14, 2023 | Collection

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18th and 19th Century

Portrait, landscape paintings, and model of a ship in the 18th Century Collection

About The Art

The Butler’s 18th-century collection starts with the earliest painting in the museum: Portrait of Catherine Ten Broeck (1719) by Nehemiah Partridge, and with two paintings from 1757: Joseph Badger’s Portrait of Mr. Daniel Rea and John Singleton Copley’s Portrait of Mrs. Daniel Rea & Child. In the James Gallery, a grouping of works by the Hudson River School painters is shown with other 18th & 19th-century works, including a major oil by Fitz Henry Lane and canvases by Thomas Cole and Severin Roesen. The very popular Saint Nicholas, by Robert Weir, and Rembrandt Peale’s George Washington are also featured.

LOCATION: Bacon Hall, first-floor entrance, James Gallery, first floor

Selected Works

A model of a large sailing ship is displayed inside the museum exhibit.

The Great Republic

George E. Woodside

A small sailboat with a much smaller rowboat alongside it battles heavy waves as it makes its way towards a large port in the background, surrounded by large sailing ships.

New Castle on the Delaware

Edward Moran

A landscape painting showing a river with rolling green hills in the background, several small boats on the water in the middle, and a man on a horse guiding several cows along the shore in the foreground.

View Near Springfield, Mass.

Alvan Fisher

George and Martha Washington stand in formal attire before a priest in a large room surrounded by many others also dressed formally.

The Marriage of Washington

Junius Brutus Stearns

A landscape painting of a bend in a river, showing a tall hill in the background, several small sailboats on the river in the middle, and a small grove of trees in the foreground.

Denning’s Point, Hudson River

Thomas Doughty

A landscape scene shows a large river in the background between two tall hills at sunset with a multitude of sailboats sailing up and down its shores, with a small village and two men on horseback in the foreground.

Hudson River with a Distant View of West Point

Seth Eastman

A group of several children kneel on a sidewalk. One child in the front reaches out to touch a small object in the foreground.

Street Urchins

David Gilmour Blythe

A fruit arrangement with a large watermelon on the left and a basket of peaches and purple grapes on the right.

Still Life

Albert Francis King

A landscape scene shows a tall cliff on the left side of the painting with a large hill on the right and a green valley in the middle with an overgrown ruined stone arch in the center. In the foreground a group of people sit in a circle playing instruments.

Italian Landscape

Thomas Cole

A landscape scene shows a grassy green mountain in the distance, with a small village next to a bridge over a river in the foreground. A group of cattle can be seen resting at the water's edge.

Landscape with Castle

Joshua Shaw

A large sailing ship is shown anchored in the middle of a harbor. Several small boats appear in the foreground and the background is covered in a thick fog, obscuring several more ships.

Ship Starlight

Fitz Henry Lane

Through a break in the trees in the foreground on both sides of the painting is shown a river with several sailboats passing in the background at sunset.

Sailing (The Hudson at Tappan Zee)

Jasper F. Cropsey

An arrangement of fruit on a table. A large bowl of strawberries is the main focus in the center, surrounded by vines of green, red, and purple grapes, a basket of red cherries, peaches, a sliced lemon, and a pear.

Still Life with Strawberries

Severin Roesen

A small man wearing a red hood and cloak looks over his shoulder as he enters a fireplace while holding a small sack of toys over his shoulder.

Saint Nicholas

Robert Walter Weir

A landscape painting showing a small mountain in the distant background and a small river in the foreground. A light mist obscures the view of the mountain.

Adirondack

Charles Henry Chapin

A large tree sits in the foreground of a view of a lake at sunset. Underneath the tree a couple sits looking at one another.

The Trysting Tree

Asher Brown Durand

A painting of a harbor showing a large sailing ship in the center of the painting surrounded by several small boats in the foreground and background. A large iceberg looms behind the ship in the middle left of the painting.

Afternoon on the Labrador Coast

William Bradford

Painting of a landscape with hazy mountain peaks in the background and trees in mutiple fall colors in the foreground.

View of Conway Valley, New Hampshire

John White Allen Scott

Painting of a young boy holding grapes and sitting behind a display of various fruits and a a bottle of wine

Boy with Still Life

Charles (Carl) Baum

A fox with a mallard's neck in its mouth.

Fox and Goose

John James Audubon

A woman lies on a bed sleeping while she is holding a baby who is awake and looking towards the viewer.

Mother and Child

Thomas Sully

*Please note that the artworks in the permanent collection on display may undergo periodic changes and rotations. We suggest that if you’re traveling to the museum to view a specific piece of artwork, call us ahead of time to confirm it is currently on display (330-743-1107 ext. 1108)