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Portrait Of Catherine Ten Broeck

by Nehemiah Partridge

1719
oil on canvas
32 X 48" (81.28 x 121.92 cm.)

Butler Institute of American Art

Youngstown, OH

Partridge, Nehemiah 
Portrait Of Mr. Daniel Rea

by Joseph Badger

c. 1757
oil on canvas
49 X 59" (124.46 x 99.06 cm.)

Butler Institute of American Art

Youngstown, OH

Badger, Josephnotes
This portrait by Joseph Badger is one of a pair of paintings that unassumingly marks a turning point in American painting, one not particularly beneficial to the artist. Painted when Badger was forty-nine, the portrait serves as a pendant to one of Reds wife painted at the same time by John Singleton Copley. The execution of pendant portraits by...
Portrait Of Mr. Thomas Russell

by Charles Willson Peale

c. 1784
oil on canvas
30 1/4 X 25 1/4" (76.84 x 64.14 cm.)

Butler Institute of American Art

Youngstown, OH

Peale, Charles Willsonnotes
Thomas Russell (1741-1786) ordered two pairs of portraits of himself and his wife, nee Ann Thomas (b. 1751), during a trip to Philadelphia from Cecil County, Maryland around 1784. At that time, Peale, his patron's exact contemporary, dominated the local portrait market. Because the Russells enjoyed greater financial and material prosperity in the...
Portrait Of Mrs. Thomas Russell

by Charles Willson Peale

c. 1784
oil on canvas
30 1/4 X 25 1/4" (76.84 x 64.14 cm.)

Butler Institute of American Art

Youngstown, OH

Peale, Charles Willsonnotes
Thomas Russell (1741-1786) ordered two pairs of portraits of himself and his wife, nee Ann Thomas (b. 1751), during a trip to Philadelphia from Cecil County, Maryland around 1784. At that time, Peale, his patron's exact contemporary, dominated the local portrait market. Because the Russells enjoyed greater financial and material prosperity in the...
Red and Gold

by Frank Weston Benson

1915.
oil on canvas.
51 X 59" (78.74 x 99.06 cm.)

Butler Institute of American Art

Youngstown, OH

Benson, Frank Weston 
Roadside Meeting

by Albert Pinkham Ryder

oil on canvas
15 X 12" (38. 10 x 30.48 cm.)

Butler Institute of American Art

Youngstown, OH

Ryder, Albert Pinkhamnotes
Roadside Meeting appears to have been adapted from a scene in Sir Walter Scott's novel The Monastery, written in 1820, and set in Scotland at the close of the sixteenth- century religious wars with England
Sailing (The Hudson at Tappan Zee)

by Jasper Francis Cropsey

1883
oil on canvas
14 X 24" (35.56 x 60.96 cm.)

Butler Institute of American Art

Youngstown, OH

Cropsey, Jasper Francisnotes
ible through the thin paint. These sketchy strokes, many of which are not part of the final design, give a somewhat unfinished, rough vitality to the work.
Saint Nicholas

by Robert W. Weir

1838
Oil on wood panel
30 x 25" (76.20 x 63.50 cm.)

Butler Institute of American Art

Youngstown, OH

Weir, Robert W. 
Ship Starlight

by Fitz Hugh Lane

c. 1860
oil on canvas
30 X 50" (76.20 x 127.00 cm.)

Butler Institute of American Art

Youngstown, OH

Lane, Fitz Hughnotes
A painter of ships and marine views for all of his life, Fitz Hugh Lane has created, in Ship Starlight, one of the magical images of his late career
Ship: Valparaiso

by James E. Buttersworth

c. 1855
oil on canvas
24 X 36" (60.96 x 91.44 cm.)

Butler Institute of American Art

Youngstown, OH

Buttersworth, James E.notes
version, also Ship: Valparaiso (n.d., private collection), differ only in minor details-the placement of the gulls, the handling of the water and sky, and the treatment of the ship's reflection in the water.
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