Collection Highlights
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Date:
1864
Object Number:
PR.011.5
Medium:
Albumen print mounted on card (Carte de Visite)
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David Hosack, M.D. (1769-1835)
Object Number:
1910.7
Date:
1910
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
canvas: 36 x 30 1/4 in. ( 91.4 x 76.8 cm )
frame: 47 1/2 x 40 1/2 x 4 1/2 in. ( 120.6 x 102.9 x 11.4 cm )
Marks:
signature: lower right: "After T. Sully [original once attributed to] / by / A. G. Heaton"
inscription: on back: "Portrait of David Hosack, M.D. & Pres. of N.Y. Hist. Soc. / B.1769, D. 1835 / Copied, 1910, by A. G. Heaton / from a portrait by Thomas Sull
Gallery Label:
A native New Yorker, David Hosack became a noted physician and one of the city's most prominent citizens. As a young doctor, he distinguished himself during the yellow fever epidemic of 1797-98, and he was the attending physician at the Aaron Burr-Alexander Hamilton duel. He was a biographer and historian as well as a founder and the fourth president of N-YHS (1820-1827). This portrait is based on an original painted by John Trumbull in 1806, owned by New York Hospital.
Credit Line:
Gift of the artist
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
