W.R. Allan. Identification uncertain. Mary Bartlett Cowdrey in National Academy of Design Exhibition Record (1869-1890) Notes lists the name in the Autumn 1890 exhibition with two works, and address as at 55 West 33rd Street. (Smithsonian Institution, Archives of American Art)

Ezra Ames (1767-1836) American portrait painter of early Nineteenth Century. A painting of Governor George Clinton in 1812 brought him fame. He then received many commissions, especially from prominent statesmen in New York. His works hang in the State Capitol in Albany, New York State Library and The New-York Historical Society. (See Courtelyou & Bolton, Ezra Ames of Albany)

Abraham (Abram) Archibald Anderson (1847-1940) Born the at the home of his maternal grandparents Abraham and Sarah Ryerson in Hackensack, New Jersey, Anderson was one of ten children. His father had been a principal engineer of the Forty-second Street Reservoir, but turned to religion and graduated from Brunswick Theological Seminary.

Anderson studied art in Paris with Bonnat, Cabanel, Cormon and Collin. He founded the American Art Association of Paris in 1890; was a member of the American Water Color Society; won a gold medal at the Paris salon for his painting "Le Matin apres le Bal." His works are in the collections of the Smithsonian, the Cleveland Museum of Art and the San Joaquin Pioneer Museum and Haggin Art Galleries, Stockton, California. Anderson was noted as a portrait painter and among his subjects were General O.O. Howard, General Morgan, H.B. Claflin, Thomas A. Edison, Bishop Cleveland Coxe, Elihu Root, and John Wanamaker.

A major exhibition of 50 of his paintings was held in Richmond, Virginia, at the Anderson Galleries of the School of Social Work and Public Health, given by him to the College of William and Mary. In describing the exhibition, the Richmond Times Dispatch wrote, "Among the important and interesting canvases is a startling portrait of Judge Edward R. Finch in his judicial robes."

In 1887 Anderson married Elizabeth Milbank (1850-1921) daughter of Jeremiah and Elizabeth (Lake) Milbank. He and his wife were major philanthropists. Among many charitable gifts, Mrs. Anderson gave $3 million to Barnard college. Their only child, Dr. Eleanor A. Campbell, founded the Judson Health Center in Greenwich Village. Her daughter, Betty, married Henry Adams Ashforth, but died after five years of marriage leaving two children: Eleanor Mabel Ashforth and Henry Adams Ashforth, Jr.

A man of diverse interests and talents, Anderson became fascinated with the far west and developed a second home in Wyoming, "Palette Ranch" on the Grey Bull River, which was 180 miles from the nearest railroad. Anderson should be remembered for his early conservation efforts. His obituary states, "Moreover wild game was fleeing from the land until Col. Anderson at the risk of his life, restored order to the range. President Theodore Roosevelt appointed him first superintendent of the Yellowstone Forest Reserve after Col. Anderson cleaned out the Jackson Hole country, which he declared was filled with rustlers, convicts and desperados."

Also a patron of aviation in its early days, Anderson obtained his pilot's license after World War I, and in 1930 was called "Colonel Anderson, the Aviator." His artistic interests continued throughout his life and he was working on a painting up until a week before his death at the age of 93. Appropriately, the funeral service took place at his studio, 80 West 40th St., New York City, located on the top floor of the Beaux Arts Studio Building he had designed and had built.

Anderson, A.A., Experiences and impressions, the Autobiography of Colonel A.A. Anderson, New York: The MacMillan Co., 1933; New York Times, April 28, 1940, 37:1; Dawdy, Doris O., Artists of the American West, III, p. 6; Benezit; Fielding; Mallet.

Carlos Baca-Flor (1869-1941) Famed Spanish-American portrait painter, elected unanimously to the Institute de France, known as The Forty Immortals, in 1926 as American Corresponding Member of the painting section. Born in Isley, Peru, Baca-Flor spent his early years in Chile where he studied with the Florentine teacher Giovanni Mochi and the Chilean, Don Cosme San Martin. Later he studied and worked in Italy, Spain and France. And Paris he worked under Jean Paul Laurens, the "teacher of teachers" and Dagnan-Bouvert. He won First Prize at the Salon des Artistes. According to La Prensa, in 1908 J. Pierpont Morgan, then 75 years of age, recognized Baca-Flor's talent and persuaded him to come to the United States, where he painted several portraits of Mr. Morgan and other persons of importance: Frank Baker, W.B. Dickerman, Hon. Joseph Choate, and John Bigelow (Lincoln's Ambassador to France). Many of his works were destroyed in a fire in 1914 at the Gibson Studios in New York. Several reproductions were made by Baca-Flor of his portrait of Mr. Morgan for Mr. Morgan's home, library and country home. (La Prensa "In the Studio of the Great Spanish American Artist Carlos Baca-Flor" by Gerardo Chiriboga, article in rotogravure section, no date but probably 1926. Society files).

Carle John Blenner (1862-1952) American genre and portrait painter, born in Richmond, Virginia. Studied four years at the Julian Academy, Paris; Hon. B.F.A. Yale Art School, 1904. Exhibited four times to 1891. Painted notables in Europe, England and the United States. His awards included Medal, Boston 1891; Hallgarten Prize, National Academy of Design 1899; bronze medal, St. Louis Exposition, 1904; silver medal, Charleston, South Carolina; medals and prizes at New Haven and Hartford, Connecticut. He was praised especially for his use of artful light effects. Unmarried. Member of Salmagundi Club. (Who Was Who in America, 1985; Benezit)

Morton H. B. Bly (1876-1935), American, born in Antwerp of American parents; died Hartford, Connecticut. He studied art in Antwerp and London before coming to New York where he painted many prominent persons, such as William D. Guthrie, Judge Victor J. Dowling, Cleveland E. Dodge, W. D. Hutton, Herbert H. Lehman, J.P. Morgan [Jr.] and Joseph Edwards Simmons, President of the New York Stock Exchange. He also specialized in miniature portraits on ivory. (Obit., New York Times, Aug. 11, 1935)

George Rufus Boynton, (1856-1945), American, born Pleasant Grove, Wisconsin. Received training at the National Academy of Design and studied painting under Walter Shirlaw, C.Y. Turner and J. G. Brown. Seven works in the Society's Collection. He has been called the painter laureate of the American Army and Navy due to the large number of portraits of generals and admirals he has done. (Note, the Record 62:231 (July 1931); Fielding)

Giovacchino Cantoni (1770–1844) Italian portrait painter, born in Florence, Italy. (the Record 64:306 (July 1933))

Marguerite Castaing (mid 20th century) (Mrs. Lewis A. Riley). Born in France of a family of noted French painters; studied under Paul Laurens and other French academicians. She lived in Navarre and on the Basque Coast, where she painted landscapes. Following her arrival in the United States during World War II, she held her first show at the Koetser Gallery under Andre Seligmann. She held two other shows in 1944 and 1945 in New York to mixed reviews, though her work was described as "sound, earnest work". She painted portraits, nudes and landscapes. She was resident in Sarasota, Florida in 1977. (The Art Index; New York Times Feb. 13, 1944, II p. 7:8; Apr. 1, II p. 8: 6; Art News 43:28 (Feb. 15, 1944))

Frederic Edwin Church (1876–c.1965) American, born in Brooklyn. Studied at School of Architecture, Columbia Univ., Art Students League and the Julian Academy, Paris. Exhibited: the National Academy of Design, prize (1916); the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Art Institute of Chicago, Detroit Institute of Art, and others. No relation to the celebrated Hudson River School artist of the same name. Member of Salmagundi Club, MacDowell Colony, Allied Artists of New York, American Federation of Artists, Lyme Art Association and others. (Who's Who in American Art, 1952, p. 112, Who Was Who in American Art, 1985, p. 114)

Thomas Casilear Cole (1888–1976) American, born at Staatsburgh, New York. Studied at the Boston Museum School of Fine Arts and with Laurens at the Julian Academy in Paris. Works in the Federal Court, N.Y., the Vermont State Capitol, N.Y. Bar Assn., Brooklyn Public Library, Battle Abbey Museum, Richmond, Va., U.S. Naval Academy, Queens Public Library, etc. Exhibited at the National Academy of Design, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Art Institute of Chicago, the Knoedler Gallery (one man show) and taught at several institutions including the Traphagen School of Art and the School of Fine and Industrial Arts, New York City. (Who's Who in American Art, 1952, p. 119)

Alfred Quinton Collins (1855–1903) American. As a young man he studied first in Paris at Julien's and later with Bonnat, specializing in portraits. He worked primarily in San Francisco, Buffalo and Boston. He is represented in the Metropolitan Museum of Art by "The Artist's Wife" and at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts by an unfinished portrait of Thomas B. Clarke. He was a member of the Society of American Artists and the National Academy of Design. Before his untimely death he burned his paintings. An exhibition of eleven of his works was held in 1925 at the Brooklyn Museum. (Brooklyn Museum, A Collection of Paintings by the Late Alfred Quinton Collins, ANA Feb. 1925; Kenneth Frazier, Article in The Arts, Apr. 1925; New York Public Library Artist File; Mallet; Fielding)

Francesco Paolo Finochiaro (19th–20th Century) Italian painter; born at Randazzo, near Messina; studied at the Instituto di Belle Arti in Naples under Som. Morelli. He had his first great success at the age of 18. He moved to Rome where he painted countless portraits of world and church leaders, ladies of the aristocracy and the foreign colony. After 5 years in Rome he went to Paris and then to the United States where he distinguished himself with a painting of Theodore Roosevelt and his family, and carried out numerous other commissions. (Benezit)

Freeman, H. Identification uncertain.

Antoine Placide Gibert (1806–1875) French artist; born in Bordeaux and died in that city. Studied at the Ecole des Beaux Arts, 1828. He figured in the Salon de Paris from 1831–1865 with historical Italian and Egyptian landscapes, genre paintings and portraits. Won 2nd prize, the Prix de Rome in 1832. Four of his works are exhibited at the Museum in Bordeaux. Gibert painted in the United States for some 14 years, 1841-1855. Several works cataloged at the F.A.R.L. of American subjects are similar in style to the work in the Society's collection. The North Carolina Portrait Index, 1700-1860 compiled by Laura MacMillan for the National Society of Colonial Dames of America in the State of North Carolina shows a portrait head of Henry Clay signed by Antoine Placide Gibert, dated 1845. This painting bears a striking resemblance to the face of Clay in the full length portrait in the Society's collection. (Groce and Wallace, Dictionary of Artists.)

Howard Logan Hildebrandt (1872–1958) American painter. Born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, and worked in New York. Studied in Paris with B. Constant and J. P. Laurens and at the Ecole des Beaux Arts. Awarded the Evans Prize and first honor, Associated Artists of Pittsburgh (1911), the Brown–Bigelow gold medal of Allied Artists of America and the purchase prize of the Salmagundi Club. He has painted some outdoor scenes, was fond of doing outdoor portraits as well as indoor portraits. He has done paintings of a number of prominent Americans including H. B. Thayer, Chairman of the Board of A.T.&T. and its president, Walter S. Gifford. Member of the New York Water Colour Club,the Salmagundi Club and others. (Who's Who in American Art, 1985, p. 281)

Otis W. Hovey (1788–1822) American, born in Oxford, Mass. The family moved to Oxford, N. Y. where his father was a first settler and founding citizen of distinction. Dunlap describes Hovey as an artist who did not live up to his early promise and sank into oblivion. He painted a few portraits of neighbors. (Dunlap, History of the rise and progress of the Arts of Design, 1965 ed., II: p.374)

Charles Cromwell Ingham (1796–1863) born in Dublin, Ireland; studied under William Cuming, a Dublin portrait painter. He removed to New York in 1816, where he had his studio. He was a founder of the Academy of Design and became its Vice-President. He excelled in portraits and painted many prominent people of the day, including Lafayette, De Witt Clinton and Gulian C. Verplank. (Fielding; Groce & Wallace)

William Jewett, (1792–1874) American genre and portrait painter; born in East Haddam, Conn. He was apprenticed to a coachmaker. At age 18 he met Samuel Waldo and went to study with him in New York. They formed a partnership and worked as a team for many years, painting many prominent Americans. Elected a member of the National Academy of Design in 1847. Jewett died in Bergen, N.J. (Fielding: Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors and Engravers, p. 483)

Angelica King (Mrs. Morland B. King) (1890–1958), American. Grad. Emma Willard School; studied at Albany School of Fine Arts and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. She exhibited in Philadelphia. She lived and died at Easton, Pa., where her husband was head of the Electrical Engineering Department of Lafayette College. (Obit., New York Times 21 Oct. 1958,33:4)

Gilbert Stuart Newton (1794–1835) born at Halifax, Nova Scotia; commenced his studies with his maternal uncle, Gilbert Stuart, in Boston. In 1817 he visited Italy and Paris and then studied at the Royal Academy in London. He exhibited at the Royal Academy and the British Institute from 1818–1833. A brain illness cut short a very brilliant career, and Newton died at Chelsea, England. His works are noted for their quality of color and design and are exhibited in Boston, Dublin, Glasgow, Liverpool, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and in London at the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Tate and the Wallace Collection. (Benezit)

Note: A question has been raised on the attribution of this painting (formerly described as Washington Irving) to this artist. There is no physical resemblance to other portrayals of Irving during this period, e.g., the small oil portrait of Irving by Robert Leslie at the New York Public Library. (See the Record 72:33 (Jan, 1941); but also 68:201 (July 1937))

George da Maduro Peixotto (1859–1937) American. He was born in Cleveland of early American settlers of Spanish–Portuguese–Sephardic heritage and was related to Justice Benjamin Cardozo. He is represented in the Corcoran Gallery by a portrait of Sir Moses Montefiore, a relative, and in the National Gallery of Art in the Smithsonian, Washington by a portrait of Julius Bien. He is also represented in the Widener Library at Harvard and in Eastnor Castle, England. (Obit., New York Times, Oct. 13, 1937)

P. Phillips. Identification uncertain.

Henry William Pickersgill (1782–1876) British. Lived in London and painted until he was 90. He was a member of the Royal Academy and is represented in the National Gallery, London. His brother Richard, son Henry Hall and nephew Frederick Richard were also painters. (Thieme).

Johann Waldemar de Rehling Quistgaard (1872–1962) portrait artist and miniaturist. Born at Oersoltgaard, Denmark and a brother of Harald E. E. Quistgaard. Student of Joh. Rohde in Copenhagen. He exhibited his first portrait at the St. Louis World's Fair in 1904. Success in the next few years enabled him to return to work in London and Paris. Works were commissioned by the King and Queen and other members of the Danish Royal Family. On a visit to the United States in 1912 he met and married Margaret Bogle of Montclair, New Jersey and settled in the U. S. In 1918 he served as Chairman of the American Portrait Foundation of 1918, an organization whose aim was the establishment of a national American portrait gallery. As a result of his work in Washington he received commissions from the government for portraits of President Wilson's cabinet. In 1919 at the age of 42 Quistgaard received the great honor of being made a Knight of Dannebrog (an order established in the Thirteenth Century) by King Christian X of Denmark. In 1926 on the recommendation of the Luxemburg Museum, the French government made him a chevalier of the Legion of Honor in appreciation of his one–man exhibition, given at the Duran–Ruel galleries in Paris in 1925. Critics have described him a "portrait painter without peer," "a distinguished craftsman, the strikingly life–like impressions he has painted could only come from on expert with the brush and pigment." He was a member of the Salmagundi Club.

(Catalog, The Newcomb Macklin Art Gallery, Exhibition of Paintings by Quistgaard, October 1–31, 1949, with commentary by Edward W. Johns, Manager, in the Society's files; Who Was Who in American Art, 1985, p. 501)

Frank O. Salisbury, (1874–1962). Born in Harpenden, England in 1874, the son of a Methodist minister. His art studies began with the study of stained glass, a field in which his brother became an expert. He himself was later Master of the Worshipful Company of Glaziers. Salisbury was so good in his studies that he won an examination to study at the Royal Academy, where he led his class. He was soon painting for churches and public buildings and by the First World Was had become an official painter of the battles and victories of Britain. He painted the Burial of the Unknown Warrior and by 1921 had painted King George V.

So successful did he become that by the mid-1920's he had painted panels for victory monuments in India and paintings of the Royal Wedding of Princess Mary, royal baptisms, and the leaders of Britain. Allegorical and historical paintings were commissioned for Canada, the United States and other countries. He was a favorite painter of George V. In America he became a leading portrait painter, as the Society's collection amply proves. Even when portrait commissions ebbed after the depression of the 1930's, he was still in demand for portraits and heroic paintings. Besides George V and Queen Mary, he painted Edward VIII and George VI. Notable in private hands is a celebratory painting in the Union Club in New York showing the leaders of England: George VI, the royal family, Churchill, Attlee, generals and admirals.

Salisbury continued to paint until he died in 1962. He earned many honors. He was president of the Atlantic Charter Brotherhood, was made a Commander of the Victorian Order (C.V.O.) by George VI, was a Cavaliere of the Crown of Italy, and received the degree of LL.D. from St. Andrews. He was a member of the British Pilgrims and an honorary member of the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society. B. Aquila Barber, The Art of Frank Salisbury, Leigh-on-Sea, 1936. Salisbury, F.O., Portrait and Pageant, London, 1944. Who's Who, London 1950, 1959. Who Was Who (1961-1970), London 1972.)

Thomas Edgar Stephens, (1886–1966) Born Cardiff, South Wales. Studied Cardiff Univ., School of Fine Arts; Heatherly School, London; Julian Academy, Paris. Works in the White House, Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., U.S. Supreme Court, the Pentagon, Walter Reed Hospital, U.S. Military Academy, West Point, U. S. Naval Academy, Eisenhower Museum, Abilene, Kansas, Legion of Honor Gallery, Paris; U.S. Embassy, London, I. B. M. , Cornell University, Columbia University, Harvard University, Harry Truman Library and others. Member of the Salmagundi Club and others. (Who's Who in American Art, 1952, p. 586. )

Seymour Millais Stone (1877–19––) Born in Poland, but came to America at the age of 6. He studied at the Royal Academy in Munich, with Zorn in Sweden, Lefebvre in Paris and John Singer Sargent in London. He was a member of the American Artists Professional League and the Federation of American Arts. Painted numerous portraits of distinguished Europeans and Americans. (Who Was Who In American Art, 1985, p. 600.)

W. H. Sutton. Identification uncertain.

Abraham G. D. Tuthill (1776–1843) American, born at Oyster Pond, Long Island; student of Benjamin West; also studied in Paris. He worked in New York 1808–1810; Pomfret, Vermont about 1815; Utica or Plattsburgh, about 1819–1820; Buffalo in 1822; Detroit in 1825; Rochester about 1827, Cincinnati in 1831 and Buffalo from 1837–1840. He lived with his sister in Montpelier, Vermont (1840–43), where he died. (Groce & Wallace)

Note: The Frick Art Reference Library in its letter of September 12, 1972 stated its attribution of the companion portraits in the NYG&B collection to Tuthill. See NYG&B files.

John Viljoen (1967- ) Born in Toronto, Canada. He is a graduate of the Parsons School of Design in New York City 1992, B.F.A. Summa Cum Laude and Aviano Academy of Fine Arts, NYC, 1991-94. He trained in classical art with Ted Jacobs at L’Ecole Albert Defois in the Loire Valley of France in 1994-96. Viljoen uses a classical, 19th century approach in his work. He has completed more than 15 commissioned portraits in New York, France and Toronto. He has also taught portraiture and classical figure drawing in Toronto and is a member of the American Society of Portrait Artists.

The portrait of Mr. Middendorf, commissioned by the Society, was painted in July and August 1996. It required six or seven sittings of 1 ½ hour sessions in a six-week period. The work followed closely the presentation requested by Mr. Middendorf. The painting combines specific reference to the presidency of Clarence Winthrop Bowen (1907-31) with his portrait in the background in the former Board Room and symbols of Middendorf’s own contributions in the inclusion of the flag, gavel and Yearbook.

Samuel Lovett Waldo (1783–1861) American painter, born in Windham Conn. Went to London in 1806 and studied at the Royal Academy with West and Copley. In 1809 he settled in New York (1809–1861). In 1812 William Jewett came to him as a pupil and they subsequently worked together as a team painting portraits for 18 consecutive years. Waldo painted a portrait of his wife, Deliverance Mapes Waldo in 1826. His works hang in the Metropolitan Museum of Art and many prominent galleries throughout the country. He was a founder of the National Academy of Design. (Fielding, Dictionary of American Painters, p.973)

Elisabeth Weber–Fülop (1883–1966) Born in Budapest, Mme. Weber–Fülop described herself as Viennese by adoption. Studied in Vienna and in Paris at the Academy Colarossi under Renard. She came to the U. S. in 1921 to paint a portrait of the opera diva Maria Jeritza. She divided her time between Vienna, where she was highly acclaimed, and New York, settling in New York in 1929. Her husband and business manager, Emil J. Weber, who died in 1964, had at one time been city architect of Vienna. For some twenty years after 1946 they lived in Duxbury, Mass. in the historic King Caesar House across from the main wharf of King Caesar's huge clipper–ship fleet. Mme. Weber–Fülop painted portraits primarily from 1930's-1950; exhibited: National Academy of Design, 1936, 1943, the Findlay Gallery, New York City, Vose Gallery, Boston and in Memphis, Tennessee. (The Duxbury Clipper, obit., Feb. 22,1966 and information from The Art Complex Museum, Duxbury, Mass. (in NYG&B files); Mallet; Benezit)