Portraits of Robert Henry and Sarah Ann Hodges Boorman oil on canvas Each 30 x 25 inches. Provenance: By descent to the present owner. Robert H. Boorman (1790-1861) and Sarah Hodges Boorman (1807-1886) were married in 1828 in County Kent; he was 38, and she was 20. They came to New York the same year, settled, and were the parents to ten children. James Boorman (1783-1866), brother to Robert H. Boorman, in partnership with John Johnston formed the firm of Boorman & Johnston, which almost entirely controlled the Dundee linen trade from Scotland. The firm was one of the major exporters in New York of Virginia tobacco and one of the largest iron importers into the United States from Sweden and Russia. Boorman & Johnston later focused on Manhattan land development, and were responsible for Washington Square North, and the Tenth Street Studio Building, the first modern facility designed solely to serve the needs of artists. The building became the center of the New York art world for the remainder of the 19th century. Boorman served as director, vice-president and president of the Hudson River Railroad Company. He was also one of the founders of the Bank of Commerce, and was one of the original stockholders of New York University. He retired from active business in 1855. The Institution for the Blind, the Protestant Half-Orphan Asylum, the Southern Aid Society, and the Union Theological Seminary were among the recipients of his benevolence. Other portraits of the Boorman families were painted by John Wesley Jarvis (1781-1840), C.R. Parker (1799-1849) and Charles Willson Peale (1741-1827). A portrait of James Boorman by Thomas Prichard Rossiter (American, 1818-1871) is in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution. Charles Coleman Sellers, great grandson of Charles Willson Peale was the librarian of the Waldron Phoenix Belknap Jr. Research Library of American Painting in Winterthur, Delaware, from 1956 to 1959, after which he became editor of the American Colonial Painting magazine. Sellers consulted for the 1983 exhibition Charles Willson Peale and His World at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He wrote in 1979 that he was in agreement with Dr. Cook with the attribution of the present portraits of Robert Henry Boorman and Sarah Ann Hodges Boorman to the hand of Rembrandt Peale Condition: Both relined; she with scattered small areas of in-painting in the background; he with a few larger areas- one in his hair, one to his right. Framed dimensions 38 3/4 x 33 inches.
Portraits of Robert Henry and Sarah Ann Hodges Boorman oil on canvas Each 30 x 25 inches. Provenance: By descent to the present owner. Robert H. Boorman (1790-1861) and Sarah Hodges Boorman (1807-1886) were married in 1828 in County Kent; he was 38, and she was 20. They came to New York the same year, settled, and were the parents to ten children. James Boorman (1783-1866), brother to Robert H. Boorman, in partnership with John Johnston formed the firm of Boorman & Johnston, which almost entirely controlled the Dundee linen trade from Scotland. The firm was one of the major exporters in New York of Virginia tobacco and one of the largest iron importers into the United States from Sweden and Russia. Boorman & Johnston later focused on Manhattan land development, and were responsible for Washington Square North, and the Tenth Street Studio Building, the first modern facility designed solely to serve the needs of artists. The building became the center of the New York art world for the remainder of the 19th century. Boorman served as director, vice-president and president of the Hudson River Railroad Company. He was also one of the founders of the Bank of Commerce, and was one of the original stockholders of New York University. He retired from active business in 1855. The Institution for the Blind, the Protestant Half-Orphan Asylum, the Southern Aid Society, and the Union Theological Seminary were among the recipients of his benevolence. Other portraits of the Boorman families were painted by John Wesley Jarvis (1781-1840), C.R. Parker (1799-1849) and Charles Willson Peale (1741-1827). A portrait of James Boorman by Thomas Prichard Rossiter (American, 1818-1871) is in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution. Charles Coleman Sellers, great grandson of Charles Willson Peale was the librarian of the Waldron Phoenix Belknap Jr. Research Library of American Painting in Winterthur, Delaware, from 1956 to 1959, after which he became editor of the American Colonial Painting magazine. Sellers consulted for the 1983 exhibition Charles Willson Peale and His World at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He wrote in 1979 that he was in agreement with Dr. Cook with the attribution of the present portraits of Robert Henry Boorman and Sarah Ann Hodges Boorman to the hand of Rembrandt Peale Condition: Both relined; she with scattered small areas of in-painting in the background; he with a few larger areas- one in his hair, one to his right. Framed dimensions 38 3/4 x 33 inches.
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