TitleVictor Gifford Audubon
Artist
Daniel Huntington
(American, 1816 - 1906)
Date1846
MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsUnframed: 20 × 16 in.
Framed: 25 5/8 × 21 3/4 × 1 1/2 in.
SignedSigned on verso (transcribed to backing): "V.G. Audubon NA / by Daniel Huntington NA / 1846"
SubmissionANA diploma presentation
Credit LineNational Academy of Design, New York, NY
Object number610-P
Label TextAccording to his "Inventory," Huntington agreed to paint Victor Audubon's requisite portrait for presentation to the Academy in exchange for a landscape Audubon was to paint for him. Huntington noted "landscape never painted-he did not live long after." In fact, Victor lived some fourteen years more. However, his death in 1860 was described as following a series of painful, paralytic strokes. This detail, combined with the abrupt cessation of his activity within the Academy, suggests he was to some degree incapacitated for the last decade of his life. Since he had been out of touch with the Academy for some years and had died during the summer, it is not surprising that no official notice of his passing was entered into minutes at the annual meeting the following spring. However, Thomas Seir Cummings had not forgotten him: "August 17 [1860]. Died, Victor G. Audubon, Academician, son of the distinguished Ornithologist. He was an artist of much merit-a devotionist to his father's fame and works, which he continued to retouch and publish until his death."Collections
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