TitleCornelius Ver Bryck
Artist
Henry Inman
(American, 1801 - 1846)
Daten.d.
MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsUnframed: 19 7/8 × 16 in.
Framed: 25 3/8 × 21 3/8 × 1 1/2 in.
Credit LineNational Academy of Design, New York, NY, Gift of Mrs. Hepburn, sister of the sitter, 1846
Object number630-P
Label TextLittle is known about Ver Bryck's earliest training as an artist but, in 1835, he began studying under Samuel F.B. Morse and in the following year he was elected an associate member of the National Academy. He worked as landscape, historical, and genre painter and showed considerable promise. In 1837, however, his fragile health forced him to move to Mobile, Alabama. He remained in the South for the following two years and, when his health was partially restored, he sailed for Europe. He returned within a year and in 1841 he was elected an academician. Soon, however, the symptoms of tuberculosis returned. He made a second voyage to England in 1843, but died shortly after his return in the following year.According to a note by Eliot Clark there was originally had an inscription on the reverse which stated that it was a copy. Although no similar portraits of Ver Bryck have been located, this would account for the inanimate qualities of this portrait.
