Abraham Brinckerhoff

PeriodEarly 19th century

MediumOil on canvas

Dimensions26 × 19.5 in. (66 × 49.5 cm)

ClassificationsPortraits

Credit LineGift of Gilbert H. Van Note, from the estate of Elizabeth Vredenburgh Knight, 1977

Object number1977.3.10

DescriptionHalf-length portrait of a man facing left in a painted oval. Wears hair in a pony-tail (possibly a powdered wig) tied with a black ribbon, olive green coat, white shirt, stock, and vest. Rose-red drapery background with blue-gray passage behind drapery at left edge. Four outside corners are dark brown.
Curatorial RemarksThis portrait is a nearly contemporary copy of an original by Gilbert Stuart still owned by descendants.NotesAbraham Brinckerhoff (1745 - 1828) of New York was born at Flatbush, Long Island, a son of George B. Brinckerhoff and Maria Van Deusen. He married Dorothea Remsen at the Reformed Dutch Church in New York in December 1772. Brinckerhoff died at Camden, NJ. One branch of his descendants settled in Freehold in the early nineteenth century.

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ProvenanceBy descent. First lent to MCHA in 1933 by Amelia Vredenburgh Knight, to her daughter Elizabeth Vredenburgh Knight, to her nephew Gilbert H. Van Note.