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with Carlo Diego, Cara Jordan, Lauren Ritz, Leonidas Maliokas, Bruce Weber
Introduction | Scholarly Essay and 3D model | Project Narrative | Appendices
Appendix 1: Purchases by James Lenox from Auction and Sales, 1848–76
Note: Sales information taken from the Lenox Library Guide to Paintings and Sculpture (1882) is indicated with an asterisk, or, when available, from auction catalogues.
| Christie and Manson, London, March 11, 1848 Catalogue: Catalogue of the Select and Beautiful Collection of the Works of Modern English Artists, Chiefly of Cabinet Size, Formed . . . by James Peel (London: Christie and Manson, 1848). | |
| Lot 42 | William Collins, View in Devonshire, on the Webber, 1825. |
| Lot 47 | John Constable, Cottage on a River—“The Valley Farm,” ca. 1835. |
| Lot 67 | George Morland, Marine View back of the Isle of Wight. Revenue Cutter in Chase of Smuggler, 1799–1800. |
| *Dr. David Hosack Sale, New York, August 1849 | |
| Thomas Cole, Expulsion from Paradise, 1828. | |
| *J. P. Beaumont, New York, 1850 | |
| J. L. E. Morgenstern, Interior of a Church, 1812. | |
| A. Verboom, Landscape, n.d. | |
| Solomon Ruysdael, Landscape, n.d. | |
| G. [Godfried] Schalcken, A Girl Holding a Candle, n.d. | |
| *David C. Claypoole, Philadelphia, February 1850 | |
| James Peale, Portrait of George Washington, 1778 | |
| *Christie and Manson, London, June 15, 1850 | |
| Sir David Wilkie, five sketches, n.d. | |
| Sir Joshua Reynolds, A Boy in a Red Velvet Dress Leaning Forwards on a Green Cushion, Holding a Pen and Paper in His Hand, 1784. | |
| Charles Meigh Collection, Christie and Manson, London, June 21, 1850 Catalogue: Catalogue of the Important and Celebrated Collection of Italian, Flemish, Dutch, and English Pictures, Formed . . . by Charles Meigh of Grove House, Shelton, Staffordshire (London: Christie and Manson, 1850). | |
| Lot 65 | Peter Nasmyth, Woody Landscape, with Mountains in the Distance, n.d. |
| Lot 83 | William Mulready, A Picturesque Cottage on the Bank of a River, n.d. |
| Lot 84 | David Wilkie, The Crown of Scotland, n.d. |
| Lot 86 | A. W. Callcott, A Classical View in Italy with Buildings, n.d. |
| Lot 94 | John Constable, A Rustic Landscape with a Rainbow (“probably a copy”), date of the original 1808–16. |
| Lot 126 | David Roberts, Part of the Church of St. Jacques—Dieppe, n.d. |
| Lot 133 | Thomas Gainsborough, A Romantic Woody Landscape, with a Peasant and Two Horses Crossing a Pool of Water, and Sheep on a Rising Ground, 1783–84. |
| Lot 136 | Edwin Landseer, A Landscape—Sunset, n.d. |
| Lot 142 | Edwin Landseer, Dog in a Stable (with an autograph note from Leslie swearing to its authenticity), n.d. |
| Lot 150 | F. R. Herbert, Francesca—From Dante, n.d. |
| Lot 154 | J. M. W. Turner, A Scene on the French Coast with an English Ship-of-War Stranded, 1831. |
| Lot 164 | George Morland, Pigs in a Fodder Yard, 1792. |
| Lot 167 | F. R. Lee, Mill on the River Teign, near Crediton, Devonshire, 1842. |
| Lot 173 | John Jackson, Edmund Burke (copy after Sir Joshua Reynolds), original, 1774; date of copy unknown. |
| *Philip Hone Sale, New York, April 1852 | |
| Gilbert Stuart Newton, The Greek Girl, 1823. | |
| Gilbert Stuart Newton, The Dull Lecture, ca. 1828. | |
| John Vanderlyn, The Mother of the Demonic Boy. From the Transfiguration (detail and copy after Raphael, The Transfiguration, 1516–30), date of copy unknown. | |
| *W. W. Hope Sale, Paris, June 4, 1855 | |
| Horace Vernet, The Siege of Saragossa, 1819. | |
| Paul Delaroche, The Field of Battle, n.d. | |
| *Christie and Manson, London, June 5, 1857 | |
| Thomas Webster, The Race, n.d. | |
| Thomas Webster, The Return from the Fair, 1837. | |
| *Charles Leslie Sale, London, April 1860 | |
| Edwin Landseer, Study of a White Horse, n.d. | |
| Charles Leslie, Portrait of Washington Irving, 1820. | |
| *Rembrandt Peale Sale, Philadelphia, November 1862 | |
| Rembrandt Peale, Portrait of George Washington (copy after Gilbert Stuart’s first portrait, painted in 1795), date of copy unknown. | |
| Rembrandt Peale, Portrait of George Washington (copy from the original in Arlington House painted by Charles Willson Peale in 1772), date of copy unknown. | |
| Metropolitan Fair, Twenty-Second Regiment Armory, New York, April 4–23, 1864 Catalogue: Catalogue of the Art Exhibition at the Metropolitan Fair, in Aid of the U.S. Sanitary Commission (New York, 1864). | |
| Lot no. unknown | Asher B. Durand, Ruloff Jansen’s Kill—Study from Nature at Hillsdale, Columbia Co., N.Y., n.d. |
| Lot 163 | Albert Bierstadt, Valley of the Yo Semite, California, 1864. |
| Lot 173 | John F. Kensett, Coast Scene, 1864. |
| *A. M. Cozzens Sale, New York, May 22, 1868 Catalogue: Catalogue of the Paintings of the Late Mr. A. M. Cozzens (New York: Clinton Hall Art Galleries, May 22, 1868). | |
| R. E. Pine, Portrait of David Garrick, 1776–79. | |
| J. P. Beaumont, Leeds Art Galleries, New York, April 19, 1870 Catalogue: Catalogue of the Rare and Extensive Assemblage of Original Paintings, Water Color Drawings Comprising the Entire Private Collection of Mr. J. P. Beaumont, April 19, 1870 (New York: Leeds Art Galleries, 1870). | |
| Lot 261 | Gilbert Stuart, Head of Mrs. Robert Morris, ca. 1795. |
| Lot 343 | Carl Hübner, The First Grandchild, 1869. |
| *Charles F. Haseltine Sale, Philadelphia, 1874 | |
| H. Salentin, The Reception of a Young Prince, ca. 1860. | |
| Pedro de Vega Munoz, Picador in a Spanish Wine Shop, n.d. | |
| Samuel P. Avery Sales, New York, 1876 | |
| Leon y Escosura, The Parrot Dealer, at the Château of Blois, in the Time of Louis XIII, 1875. | |
| Edouard Zamacois, The Court Fool. Portrait of the Painter, 1868. | |
| José Jimenez y Aranda, A Spanish Café, 1874. | |
Appendix 2: Folder “Passports 1824 & 1825, 1850–1851, 1855–56,” box 9, James Lenox Papers, Lenox Library Archives, Manuscripts and Archives Division, New York Public Library, New York
| Certificate shows he arrived in Liverpool on the Columbia June 6, 1824 at age 23 en route to London: “Appeared at the Alien office June 23, 1824 [and] is known to Mrs. Lennox 29 Upper Hawley.” |
| Large unbound paper passport with embossings and stamps along with notations of city and date. | |
| Paris, August 5, 1824 | |
| Strasburg, [date obscured] | |
| Bern, September 12, 1824 | |
| Livorno, October 3, 1824 | |
| Venice, October 3, 1824 | |
| Milan, October 4–7, 1824 | |
| Pavia, October 8, 1824 | |
| Venice, October 11, 1824 | |
| Rome, October 14, 1824 | |
| Ferrara, October 18, 1824 | |
| Padua, October 21, 1824 | |
| Modena, October 22, 1824 | |
| Bologna, October 24, 1824 | |
| Naples, November 24, 1824 | |
| Rome, November 25, 1824 | |
| Genoa, February 1825 | |
| Returned to France and left Paris, March 7, 1825 | |
| Arrives Boulogne, July 11, 1850 |
| Bern, August 28, 1850 |
| Vaucluse, September 3, 1950 |
| Leaves Vaucluse, September 9, 1850 |
| Munich, September 22, 1850 |
| Augsburg, September 24, 1850 |
| Vienna, October 3, 1850 |
| Prague, October 6, 1850 |
| Dresden, October 8–10, 1850 |
| Frankfurt, October 10, 1850 |
| Berlin, October 19, 1850 |
| Frankfurt, October 28, 1850, returned to obtain visas for Belgium, Holland, and France |
| The Hague, November 12, 1850 |
| Paris, December 1, 1850, obtains visa for Italy |
| Sailed from Marseilles, December 5, 1850 |
| Stopped in Sardinia, December 7[?], 1850 |
| Nice, January 25, 1851 |
| Turin, February 2, 1851 |
| Prato, February 8, 1851 |
| Rome and the Vatican, February 20, 1851 |
| Tuscany, February 21[?], 1851 |
| Florence, February 26, 1851 |
| Rome, March 3, 1851 |
| Naples, March 17, 1851 |
| Rome, March 20, 1851 |
| Florence, April 22, 1851 to April 26, 1851 |
| Venice, April 27, 1851 |
| Bologna, May 1, 1851 |
| Ferrara, May 2, 1851 |
| Venice, May 5 |
| Verona, May 8, 1851 |
| Milan, May 11, 1851 |
| Geneva, May 12, 1851 |
| Lake Maggiore, May 13, 1851 |
| Valais, Switzerland, May 16, 1851 |
| Leaves Geneva, May 17, 1851 |
| Leaves Paris, May 19, 1851 |
| Separate paper “Certificate of Arrival” Port of Folkstone, England, June 3, 1851, en route to US “with his two sisters, two female & one male servant.” |
| Leaves New York, March 10, 1855. |
| Arrives in London, May 12, 1855, en route to Paris, where he obtained visas to visit Austria and Switzerland, July 6, 1855 |
| Left France, July 11, 1855, accompanied by two sisters and servants |
| Travels in mid-July, 20–23, through [indecipherable cities] |
| Reaches Turin, August 13, 1855, where he gains permission to visit Milan, Lombardy, and the Austrian states. |
| Milan, August 18, 1855 |
| Munich, September 1–11, 1855 |
| Chamonix, October 13, 1855 |
| [Two indecipherable towns], October 18, 1855 (Note: it is unclear what happened between November 1855 and April 1856. Since Lenox received permission to visit Italy and Austria, it is assumed he spent his time traveling through both countries.) |
| Florence, April 8, 1856 |
| Venice, May 10, 1856 |
| Amsterdam, June 16, 1856 |
| Hanover, June 24, 1856 |
| Dresden, July 19, 1856 |
| Bonn, August 24, 1856 |
| [Indecipherable city], September 18, 1856 |
| Munich, October 29, 1856 |
| Verona, [no date] |
| Venice, November 5–10, 1856 |
| Ferrara, November 12, 1856 |
| Bologna, November 13, 1856 |
| [Indecipherable city], December 11, 1856 |
| Rome, December 14, 1856 |
| Florence, January 22, 1857 |
| Bologna, February 10, 1857 |
| Milan, February 13, 1857 |
| Castlefranco[?], February 16, 1857 |
| Milan, February 19, 1857 |
| Nice, March 9, 1857, en route to Paris |
| Leaves France for US, May 11, 1857 |
Appendix 3: Engravings owned by the Lenox Library
Appendix 4: 9 Archival Photographs
Fig. 1, Interior of the picture gallery, Lenox Library, view of west wall, north side, ca. 1882. Photograph. New York Public Library Archives. Manuscript and Archives Division, New York Public Library, New York. Artwork in public domain; photograph courtesy of the New York Public Library.
Fig. 2, Interior of the picture gallery, Lenox Library, view of north wall, west side, ca. 1882. Photograph. New York Public Library Archives. Manuscript and Archives Division, New York Public Library, New York. Artwork in public domain; photograph courtesy of the New York Public Library.
Fig. 3, Interior of the picture gallery, Lenox Library, view of north wall, east side, ca. 1882. Photograph. New York Public Library Archives. Manuscript and Archives Division, New York Public Library, New York. Artwork in public domain; photograph courtesy of the New York Public Library.
Fig. 4, Interior of the picture gallery, Lenox Library, view of east wall, south side, ca. 1882. Photograph. New York Public Library Archives. Manuscript and Archives Division, New York Public Library, New York. Artwork in public domain; photograph courtesy of the New York Public Library.
Fig. 5, Interior of the picture gallery, Lenox Library, view of east wall, center, ca. 1882. Photograph. New York Public Library Archives. Manuscript and Archives Division, New York Public Library, New York. Artwork in public domain; photograph courtesy of the New York Public Library.
Fig. 6, Interior of the picture gallery, Lenox Library, view of south wall, east side, ca. 1882. Photograph. New York Public Library Archives. Manuscript and Archives Division, New York Public Library, New York. Artwork in public domain; photograph courtesy of the New York Public Library.
Fig. 7, Interior of the picture gallery, Lenox Library, view of south wall, west side with door, ca. 1882. Photograph. New York Public Library Archives. Manuscript and Archives Division, New York Public Library, New York. Artwork in public domain; photograph courtesy of the New York Public Library.
Fig. 8, Interior of the picture gallery, Lenox Library, view of east wall, north side, ca. 1882. Photograph. New York Public Library Archives. Manuscript and Archives Division, New York Public Library, New York. Artwork in public domain; photograph courtesy of the New York Public Library.
Fig. 9, Interior of the picture gallery, Lenox Library, view of west wall, south side, ca. 1882. Photograph. New York Public Library Archives. Manuscript and Archives Division, New York Public Library, New York. Artwork in public domain; photograph courtesy of the New York Public Library.
