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Mezzotint - F54.178.2
A half-length portrait of Queen Charlotte. Lower margin reads: "Frye ad vivum delineavit./ Her Most Excellent Majesty CHARLOTTE Queen of Great Britain, &c."
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Mezzotint - F54.179.1
A half-length oval portrait of Queen Caroline. Her hair is worn in curls, and her left hand is at her shoulder touching a coil of her hair. She is wearing a velvet gown lined with ermine with rectangular jewels down the bodice and a crown. Lower margin reads: "Serenissima et Potentissima Carolina Dei Gra Mag Brit Fran et Hiber Regina. Regina Crowned Oct. 11, 1727." Sold by H. Overton and I. Hoole at the White Horse without Newgate. G. Kneller...
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Mezzotint - F54.179.2
A half-length portrait of George Augustus, Prince of Wales (1683-1760) and future King George II of England, Great Britain after a portrait by Sir Godfrey Kneller. After the death of his father in 1727 he became King and was the second monarch from the House of Hanover. Lower margin reads: "His Royal Highness George Prince of Wales d e. G. Kneller. SImp. et mag. Brit Baronet Pinxit 1716. Sold by H. Overton at ye White Horse without Newgate. ...
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Needlepoint - F53.133.1
A Berlin work picture of Sir Walter Scott, 1st Bt. at Abbotsford. Crosstitch needlepoint on 12 mesh canvas. Berlin work pictures were often recreations of well-known paintings. This picture is of Sir Walter Scott by Sir William Allan, originally painted in 1831. The artist made a record of the many objects in the room, most notably the vase, which was the gift of Lord Byron, and behind the bust of Shakespeare are Rob Roy's long gun and a brac...
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Needlepoint - F53.133.2
Berlin work picture of a scene depicting a child holding a lamb in a landscape setting. Needlepoint on 22 mesh.
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Notebook - F93.8.46
Sterling silver pocket notebook with latch by Gorham Manufacturing Company. Checkerboard pattern on the sterling silver cover with waxed linen paper note pages.
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Painting - F2003.1.1
A half-length portrait of Samuel Townsend, wearing a black coat, white shirt and cravat. Back of the portrait states, "Samuel Townsend, son Solomon Townsend and Anne Townsend, died at age of 42 unmarried, portrait by Vanderlyn. This was painted at age of 20 years."
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Painting - F2013.2.1
Born on October 25, 1765 at Rocky Hill near Far Rockaway, Miriam Doughty Weeks was the daughter of Charles and Elizabeth Doughty and the fifth in descent from the Rev. Francis Doughty, who settled in America in 1637. Her childhood encompassed the tumultuous period of the American Revolution, in which she would experience her father going off to war. Miriam, her husband James Weeks, and their children were longtime residents of Oyster Bay, occupyi...
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Painting - F2017.1.1
Portrait of Solomon Townsend. Prior to the American Revolution, Solomon Townsend (1746-1811), eldest son of Samuel Townsend and brother of Robert, was a merchant ship's captain making many successful transatlantic voyages. During the last years of the war, he went into the iron business with his cousin Peter Townsend. Located in Orange County, New York, the Sterling Ironworks manufactured the defensive "Great Chain" that spanned the Hudson River ...
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Painting - F2021.2.1
Portrait of Robert Townsend, Jr., possibly a copy of another painting. Unknown artist, probably late 19th century, maybe early 20th century. Robert Townsend, Jr. (1784-1862) was either the illegitimate child of Robert or William and Mary (Polly) Banvard (1756-1841). Mary was a paid housekeeper at Robert, William, and cousin John Townsend's "bachelors quarters" at Peck Slip. Robert, Jr., was a carpenter and later became a politician in the Locofoc...
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Painting - F2022.1.1
Watercolor portrait of Anne Townsend (died 1823), painted later in life. Portrait contains locks of different shades of hair, one of which belongs to her son Solomon, who passed away in 1804 at the age of 2 years and 8 months. Painted by an artist with academic training, probably done in New York City. Rope motif frames were popular, especially in New England, during the early 19th century.
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Painting - F2022.1.2
Watercolor portrait of Solomon Townsend (1746-1811). Painted by an artist with academic training, probably done in New York City. Rope motif frames were popular, especially in New England, during the early 19th century.
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Painting - F2023.1.1
Miriam Doughty Underhill, born in Oyster Bay, was the daughter of Benjamin Townsend Underhill and Eliza Weeks. According to Mount's diary entries published in Alfred Frankenstein's 1975 monograph, "William Sidney Mount," Miriam Doughty Weeks, the sitter's maternal grandmother and namesake, sat for Mount for five portraits that were ordered for each of her children in 1842. The sitter is believed to be Miriam Doughty Underhill (1820-1868), of whom...
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Painting - F61.b
An early 19th century oil on canvas portrait of William Wright, aged about twelve-fourteen, seated three-quarters to left, in dark suit with white shirt, black tie, holding a vibrantly colored parrot in left hand, framed in mid-19th Century American deeply-molded gilt wood frame, each corner with applied foliate decoration, 4" molding.
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Painting - F62.a
A mid-19th Century oil on canvas, showing a landscape view of Oyster Bay Harbor, looking to Centre Island, incorporating a view of a 2 1/2 storied wooden residence, of typical Long Island architectural configuration, with several people walking by, a cow grazing in foreground, on the right, the steamboat to New York approaching on the right. Framed in deeply molded gilt and gessoed wood frame, of the period, 3 3/4" molding. For more than a de...
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Painting - F62.b
Oil portrait of Peter Townsend, showing a half-length portrait of the sitter, sitting three-quarters to right, wearing a dark frock coat with white stock-tied shirt. Framed in modern reproduction gilt and gessoed wood frame, in the manner of c.1850. Incised into back panel: P. S. Townsend M.D. N York 1826 VANDERLYN Fecit 1826.
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Painting - F63.a
A mid-19th century oil on canvas half-length portrait, showing Thomas Underhill Smith (1814-1874), sitting three-quarters to left, with whiskers, wearing a black jacket, black stock tie, in gilt and gessoed wood frame of the period, having an unusual "quilted" design cove molding, honey-comb edge, 5 1/2" molding.
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Painting - F63.b
An oval oil on canvas half-length portrait of Mary Ann Henry Smith (1814-1898), a young dark haired woman, with long black hair, seated three-quarters to left, in ruby velvet gown, black lace shawl; framed in oval gilt and gessoed wood frame, with a quilted and honey comb design, ensuite to frame of Thomas Underhill Smith.
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Painting - F71.18
Facade of Raynham Hall taken from across West Main Street. Signed: L.R. : "Karwowski"
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