Wylie, Samuel B. (Samuel Brown), 1773-1852 Search this
Extent:
2 Reels (ca. 150 items (on 2 partial microfilm reels))
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Reels
Date:
1760-1935
Scope and Contents:
Letters, mainly from artists, and documents selected from the Historical Society of Pennsylvania's miscellaneous manuscript collection (Society Collection). Letters are to various people; 46 of them are to Townsend Ward and a few are to John A. McAllister, photographer. Many of the letters refer to paintings, portraits, commissions, and awards.
Writers of letters include: Edwin Austin Abbey, Mary Gertrude Abbey, F.W. Bayley, Albert Bierstadt, George Catlin, Joseph Ceracchi, John Gadsby Chapman, John Cheney, James Claypool, James Cox, F.O.C. Darley, Joseph Delaplaine, Humphrey Donnehue, William Dunlap, Pierre Eugene Du Simitiere, S. Eliot, Charles Fevret De Saint-Memin, Charles Dana Gibson, Harold Edgar Gillingham, Horatio Greenough, George Harding, Levi Hollingsworth, William Morris Hunt, Daniel Huntington, Henry Inman, Horatio Gates Jones, James Reid Lambdin, Will Hicok Low, Edward Dalton Marchant, William Henry Moody, John Neagle, Albert Newsam, Bass Otis, Thomas Paine, Charles Willson Peale, Franklin Peale, James Peale, Jr., Mary Jane Peale, Rembrandt Peale, Titian Ramsay Peale, Joseph Pennell, Clement Penrose, Robert Piggot, Thomas Buchanan Read, William Trost Richards, Thomas Prichard Rossiter, Peter Frederick Rothermel, William Rush, John Sartain, Stephen Alonzo Schooff (to Townsend Ward), Russell Smith, Charles H. Stephens, Thomas Sully, Philip Syng, John Vanderlyn, N.P. Willis, Alexander Wilson and Patience Wright.
Among the recipients of letters are Archibald Alexander, David S. Brown, William Belcher, Col. Brodhead, B. Burrell, Carey & Hart, Edward L. Carey, Henry C. Carey, Miss Clarke, Mr. Curren, Joseph Delaplaine, John Dickinson, Dr. Dickson, William Dillwyn, William Duane, James B. Elliott, Mrs. Langdon Elwyn, Mantle(?) Fielding, John W. Francis, Charles P. Hayes, David Hosack, Mr. Howell, Major William Jackson, Horatio Gates Jones, John W. Jordan, H.H. Kjmball, C.G. Leland, Joseph Leidy, J.B. Lippincott, George Livermore, James Madison, J. Hill Martin, John McAllister, James McMurtrie, James Monaghan, J. Murray, Albert Cook Myers, Rebecca and Isabella Nathans, John Neagle, C.S. Ogden, John Paca, Charles Willson Peale, Rembrandt Peale, David Rittenhouse, Albert Rosenthal, John Sartain, Jacob Schreiner, James Shrigley, James Ross Snowden, W.D. Snyder, Dr. Sommerville, J.C. Stanbridge, F.D. Stone, Henry Troth, Mr. Vaux, Townsend Ward, William Hill Wells, G.M. Wharton, Thomas Wharton, Henry J. Williams, and Samuel B. Wylie.
Other items include a sonnet of S.T. Coleridge by Washington Allston; business card of Pennel Beale; catalog of medals and coins of silver in the possession of Hon. John Smith compiled by Du Simitière, 1772; printed address by Mrs. John C. Montgomery soliciting donations for the repair of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, destroyed by fire, 1845; William Morris Hunt's admission ticket to Peale's Museum, 1836, stating his height and weight; description of objects on display at the Peale Museum, 1820; a photograph and business card of Benjamin Randolph; invitations and notes to Gilbert Stuart; typescript by Frank H. Taylor on lithography, 1923; subscription book for engravings of paintings by John Trumbull; and a page from John Archibald Woodside's daybook, 1802-1803.
Provenance:
Microfilmed by the Historical Society of Pennsylvania for the Archives of American Art, 1955.
Restrictions:
The Archives of American art does not own the original papers. Use is limited to the microfilm copy.
Files on ca. 150 American artists and art subjects, selected from Duveen's art reference files. Included are photographs of paintings in other collections, auction and exhibition catalogs, miscellaneous publications.
Files include: Francis Alexander, Washington Allston, William H. Bartlett, Ben-Zion, Thomas Birch, Joseph Blackburn, Ralph A. Blakelock, Charles F. Blauvelt, Peter Blume, Emile Branchard, Albertis D. O. Browere, John G. Brown, Jonathan Buddington, James E. Buttersworth, Carra, Dennis M. Carter, Mary Cassatt, George Catlin, Centurion, Paul Cezanne, Moura Chabor, Marc Chagall, T. Chambers, Jean Charlot, Thomas Cole, John Constable, George Cope, John S. Copley, Ralston Crawford, Jasper F. Cropsey, Arthur B. Davies, Charles Despiau, Roland Detre, Thomas R. Dibble, Enrico Donati, William Doriani, Thomas Doughty, Jessie Drew-Bear, Robert S. Duncanson, Dunlap, Asher B. Durand, George H. Durrie, Frank Duveneck, Evert Duyckinck, Thomas Eakins, Jacob Eichholtz, Louis M. Eilshemius, Charles L. Elliott, Robert Field, Emil Ganso, Pablo Gargallo, Jan Gelb, Paul Gillman, Christian Gullager, George H. Hall, Chester Harding, William M. Harnett, George Harvey, William J. Hays, George P. A. Healy, Edward L. Henry, John Hesselius, Edward Hicks, Thomas Hicks, Holland House, Charles Fevret de Saint-Memin, Winslow Homer, S. A. Hudson, Daniel Huntington, Henry Inman, George Inness, John W, Jarvis, Eastman Johnson, Henrietta Johnston, John Johnston, Hilde B. Kayn, Dikran K. Kelekian, Fitz Hugh Lane, Ernest Lawson, M. F. Lefferts, William R. Leigh, Abraham Lincoln, George B. Luks, Edward G. Malbone, Alfred H. Maurer, Louis Maurer, McKay, Alfred J. Miller, Louis C. Moeller, Samuel F. B. Morse, John Neagle, Donald Organ, Bass Otis, Walter Pach, Charles W. Peale, James Peale, Rembrandt Peale, William Penn, Enoch W. Perry, F. E. H. Philippoteaux, Charles P. Polk, T. B. Pope, Rufus Porter, William M. Prior, Walter Quirt, William T. Ranney, Reinhardt, Frederic Remington, Louisa Robins, Severin Roesen, Thomas P. Rossiter, Peter F. Rothermel, Charles M. Russell, Edward Savage, William Sawitzky, Nikol Schattenstein, Christian Schussele, D. Serres, James Sharples, Morris Shulman, John Smibert, Sergei Soudeikin, Haim Soutine, Frederick R. Spencer, Albert Stewart, Robert Street, William J. Strong, Gilbert Stuart, C. (Charles ?) Sullivan, Thomas Sully, Arthur F. Tait, G. Tirrell, John Trumbull, John Vanderlyn, Pieter Vanderlyn, William Von Schlegell, Samuel L. Waldo, Abraham Walkowitz, George Washington, Elbert Weinberg, Julian A. Weir, Thomas B. Welch, Adolph U. Wertmuller, Benjamin West, Anne Whitney, Arnold Wiltz, William E. Winner, S. Wood, and Thomas W. Wood.
The Saint-Memin, Stuart, B. West and Wertmuller files contain material from Albert Rosenthal relating to the above artists.
Arrangement:
Files are arranged alphabetically by artist and subject, rolls NDU1-NDU3; publications and other miscellany were filmed on rolls NDU4-NDU5.
Biographical / Historical:
Albert Duveen was an art dealer and collector with offices in New York, N.Y., specializing in early American art. He was a cousin to Joseph Duveen (1869-1939), 1st Baron Duveen, president of Duveen Brothers art dealers.
Provenance:
Lent for microfilming 1958 by Duveen.
Restrictions:
The Archives does not own the original papers. Microfilmed materials must be consulted on microfilm.
Saint-Mémin, Charles Balthazar Julien Fevret de, 1770-1852 Search this
Extent:
23 Items ((on partial microfilm reel))
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Date:
1894-1977
Scope and Contents:
Artist files accumulated by Walker while he was librarian of the National Museum of American Art/ National Portrait Gallery Library, including correspondence with George Biddle, Beatrice Gilman Proske, and Barbara Morgan; exhibition material on Morgan; and a letter from John Anderson to James T. Mitchell discussing a portrait by Charles Balthazar Julien Fevret de Saint-Memin.
Biographical / Historical:
Art librarian; Washington, D.C. and New York, N.Y.
Provenance:
Transferred 1981 from NMAA/NPG Library.
Restrictions:
Use of original papers requires an appointment and is limited to the Archives' Washington, D.C., Research Center. Microfilmed materials must be consulted on microfilm. Contact Reference Services for more information.
Indians of North America -- Great Plains Search this
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Archival materials
Photographs
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Hair is worn long. Sketch shows him in uniform, with silver band on arm. He wears the silver medal presented by the United States to chiefs. Inscribed twice in St Memin's handwriting "Payouska Chef des Grands Osages."
Local Numbers:
OPPS NEG.4090
Local Note:
See New York Historical Society Quarterly Bulletin, April 1928, "The St Memin Indian Portraits," by Luke Vincent Lockwood, Member American Antiquarian Society. (Figure 1).
Indians of North America -- Great Plains Search this
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Archival materials
Photographs
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Lithograph from a painting by St Memin (?). Notation on front of print: "Sha-ha-ka--a Mandan Chief. Published by D. Rice and A. N. Hart, Philada. Lith. Printed & Cold. by J. T. Bowen."Lithograph from painting (possibly by St Memin--see artist file) originally in American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia (nformation from McKenney & Hall, volume 2, 1858, page 197).
Local Numbers:
OPPS NEG.7715130
Local Note:
See also: slide collection--McKenney & Hall negative 3439.
Indians of North America -- Great Plains Search this
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Archival materials
Glass negatives
Photographs
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Reproduced from crayon sketch by St. Memin, made July 1804. Dressed in blanket, ears mutilated, bead earings, scalp lock and knots with streamers. See BAE 43rd Annual Report, Plate 11.
Indians of North America -- Great Plains Search this
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Archival materials
Glass negatives
Photographs
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Reproduced from crayon sketch of the Chief of the Little Osage, made July 1804. He wears a scalp lock with pig tail, uniform, silver band, medal, and beads in ear. See BAE 43rd Annual Report, Plate 11.
Indians of North America -- Great Plains Search this
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Archival materials
Glass negatives
Photographs
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Reproduced from crayon sketch by St. Memin, made July 1804. Scarf about the neck and over the chest, silver band on arm, headdress of feathers over the scalp lock and wreath about the head, design painted about the ears, long earings. See BAE 43rd Annual Report, Plate 11.
Previously identified as Mandan Chief Shahaka or Sheheke. Identified as a Delaware man, possibly Montgomery Montour, chief of the tribe by Ellen G. Miles in "Saint-Memin and the Neoclassical Profile Portrait in America" (1994).
Indians of North America -- Great Plains Search this
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Archival materials
Photographs
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She has long dark hair, and is fully dressed. Her ears are not mutilated except for piercing for small silver earring. Inscribed by St Memin "Femme Indienne des Iowas des Missouri." (Lower left hand corner - indistinct).
Local Numbers:
OPPS NEG.3924 B
General:
Identified as Yellow Corn, wife of Mandan Chief Sheheke, by Ellen G. Miles in Saint-Memin and the Neoclassical Profile Portrait in America (1994). Although she is identified as an Indian girl of the Iowas of the Missouri in the inscription, the watercolor referenced below was inscribed "Mandan Queen."
Local Note:
There is also a watercolor of this subject, by St Memin, once owned by Luke Vincent Lockwood. The portrait is the same. See New York Historical Society Quarterly Bulletin, April 1928 - Figure 11, and "The St Memin Indian Portraits," by Luke Vincent Lockwood, Member American Antiquarian Society. (Figure 10). The watercolor is now at the Thomas Gilcrease Institute of American History and Art.
Black and white copy negative
Restrictions:
Credit to be given to the New York Historical Society if published. See correspondence Smithsonian Institution Files, 6/4/24.
Indians of North America -- Great Plains Search this
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Archival materials
Photographs
Scope and Contents:
He wears his hair banged and long behind, his ear is mutilated and the earring is a silver wheel. Inscribed in St Memin's handwriting"Indien des Iowas des Missouri."
Local Numbers:
OPPS NEG.3924 C
General:
Identified as Mandan Chief Shahaka by Ellen G. Miles in Saint-Memin and the Neoclassical Profile Portrait in America (1994). Although he is identified as an Indian of the Iowas of the Missouri in the inscription, the watercolor referenced below is inscribed "Mandan King."
Local Note:
A watercolor of this subject, also by St Memin, was once owned by Luke Vincent Lockwood. The portrait is the same with the exception of the dress, the watercolor showing only a portion of a buffalo skin over one shoulder. See New York Historical Society Quarterly Bulletin, April 1928 - Figure 9, and "The St Memin Indian Portraits," by Luke Vincent Lockwood, Member American Antiquarian Society. (Figure 8). The watercolor is now at the Thomas Gilcrease Institute of American History and Art.
Black and white copy negative
Restrictions:
Credit to be given to the New York Historical Society if published. See correspondence Smithsonian Institution Files, 6/4/24.
Sketch of the life of Charles Balthazar Julien Fevret de Saint-Mémin; issued to accompany an exhibition of his engraved portraits at the Grolier club, March 9-25, 1899
