TitleJames Augustus Suydam, N.A.
Artist
Daniel Huntington
(American, 1816 - 1906)
Date1862
MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsUnframed: 30 × 25 1/8 in.
Framed: 35 × 30 × 2 3/4 in.
SignedSigned at lower left: "Suydam by Huntington / 1862".
Credit LineNational Academy of Design, New York, NY, Bequest of James A. Suydam, 1865
Object number611-P
Label TextDaniel Huntington's portrait of Suydam was created at the height of Suydam's professional career and shortly after Suydam was elected as a full National Academician (N.A.), a designation that is proudly incorporated into the painting's title. Suydam is depicted not against a peaceful, luminous coast such as those that he often depicted in his own work, but rather an overcast, stormy seascape. Suydam's distant expression combined with the turbulent backdrop manifest both his preoccupation with the events of the Civil War and the persistent depression that plagued him in adulthood.Collections
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