Jean Baptiste CARPENTIER, Portrait of Lafayette, 1785
oil on canvas, 21 3/4 x 18 in.
P 911
Credit Line: Lafayette College Art Collection, Easton, PA; Gift of Stuart W. Jackson
Crown Ducal (after Joseph Andrews, after Peter Frederick Rothermel), Dinner Plate: Landing of the Pilgrims, from the series Colonial Times, 1930-1940, ca.
glazed earthenware, 10 3/8 x 10 3/8 x 3/4 in.
Ceramic transferware dinner plate; ivory with blue color printed pattern, circular, scalloped rim with circular well; rim with diamond and foliate printed pattern and vignettes, each depicting native american and pilgrim imagery: Pocahontas Saving Life of John Smith; American Indian; Mayflower in Plymouth Harbor; Return of the Mayflower. Central image depicts Landing of the Pilgrims. Reverse image depicts Pilgrim Exiles.
2019.19.04
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Acquired for exhibition: A Band of Exiles on the Wild New England Shore; The Place of Peter Frederick Rothermel's The Landing of the Pilgrims in America's National Memory
March-May 2014
Additional documented makers: Gordon Pottery Works, Tunstall, Stoke-on-Trent
Giorgio SOMMER, Chiostro di S. Martino (Cloister of the Monastery of S. Martino), c. 1860s
Vintage albumen print from collodion negative, 11 x 14 3/4 in.
2019.03.132
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Title correction by Lafayette College faculty Diane Ahl, Arthur J. '55 & Barbara S. Rothkopf Professor of Art History, Ph.D.
Credit Line: Lafayette College Art Collection, Easton, PA; Gift of Bennett ('79) and Meg Goodman
Work Info sheet
Thomas SULLY, Marquis de Lafayette, Jan 16, 1826-1833
oil on canvas, 28 3/4 x 18 1/2 in.
Study oil painting; full portrait of man in dark suit with high collared white shirt and dark cape with red collar, top hat with walking stick in hand; in shadow of large covered porch structure; exterior scene of streetscape, figure with horses.
1987.01
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Dec. 1824 Sully states in his autobiography, "Lafayette I painted from life in Washington"--this likely refers to an ink and watercolor sketch (see letter from Stuart Feld and picture in object file).
NOTE: end date determined by Linda Ayres, Mt Vernon house and garden, 2006
Provenance Notes:
Excerpt from Marvin Sadik's letter in object file dated April 15, 1987.
Provenance:
Thomas Sully, 1826; Garrett C. Neagle, the artist's grandson, 1872; Josiah Brant, 1876; Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Church, Brandt's daughter and son-in-law, 1900; Mr. and Mrs. Hubert Church, the Church's son and daughter-in-law, 1931; Hubert Church, Jr., Elizabeth Church Hayne, and Joan Church Roberts, the children of Mr. and Mrs. Hubert Church, 1982-1987; Mrs. Shirley Sack.
for a life-size painting commissioned by "The Citizens of Philadelphia" in 1824 now in the collection of Independence National Park and exhibited at the Second Bank of Philadelphia. Dec. 1824 Sully states in his autobiography, "Lafayette I painted from life in Washington"--this likely refers to an ink and watercolor sketch (see letter from Stuart Feld and picture in object file).
NOTE: end date determined by Linda Ayres, Mt Vernon house and garden, 2006
Culture: Study for Independence Hall Portrait
From Robert D. Schwarz Fine Paintings: This is a smaller version of the painting in the collection of Independence National Historical Park; though different in some fine details it does not appear to be a study but rather another version.
Credit Line: Lafayette College Art Collection, Easton, PA