Great-Grand-Father's Tale of the Revolution—A Portrait of Reverend Zachariah Greene

William Sidney Mount American

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 719

This group portrait of the children of New York businessman Jacob Thuthill Vanderhoof and their maternal great-grandfather Reverend Zachariah Greene depicts the interior of the Vanderhoof residence at 55 Seventh Street. The family is surrounded by the trappings of a typical upper-middle-class parlor, including a tapestry velvet rug, elegant window draperies, a Rococo Revival armchair, and marble-topped center table. This is the type of parlor that most middle-class Americans would have desired during the mid-nineteenth century.

Great-Grand-Father's Tale of the Revolution—A Portrait of Reverend Zachariah Greene, William Sidney Mount (American, Setauket, New York 1807–1868 Setauket, New York), Oil on canvas, American

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