Name/Title
Courtlandt Palmer, Jr.Entry/Object ID
2008.0416.004Description
Oil portrait of Courtlandt Palmer, Jr. (25 March 1843 - 23 July 1888) signed by John White Alexander.
Full-length portrait of Palmer addressing the 19th-century Club in New York City. Courtlandt Palmer, Jr. son of Courtlandt and Mary Ann Suydam Palmer, was a lawyer, author, freethinker, and manager of his father's extensive estate. He and his wife, Catherine Amory Bennett, granddaughter of Samuel F. Denison of the Hill on Grand Street, lived and worked in New York City, but returned to their house at 26 Main Street, today the Holy Ghost Club.
In this portriat by John W. Alexander, a fashionable New York portrait painter, Courtlandt Palmer, Jr., is shown addressing the Nineteenth Century Club, which he founded in 1880. This club was a gathering of socially conscious intellectuals, who met to discuss serious issues of the times. Jacob Riis, the social reformer, was among its members.
At the time of his untimely death in 1888, this portrait was hung in his New York house draped with laurel and ivy.
Size: 56 x 36 inches
Artist: John White AlexanderCollection
SHS Art CollectionMade/Created
Artist Information
Artist
John White AlexanderRole
ArtistDate made
1870 - 1888Inscription/Signature/Marks
