TitleStephen Alonzo Schoff
Artist
Asher B. Durand
(American, 1796 - 1886)
Datec. 1844
MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsUnframed: 29 7/8 × 24 7/8 in.
Framed: 35 1/2 × 29 3/4 × 3 5/8 in.
SubmissionANA diploma presentation, May 15, 1845
Credit LineNational Academy of Design, New York, NY
Object number391-P
Label TextStephan Alonzo Schoff worked mainly in the production of banknotes but occasionally rendered engravings of paintings for reproduction. His major effort in this field was his engraving after John Vanderlyn's Caius Marius on the Ruins of Carthage (1807, Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco), commissioned and issued by the Apollo Association in 1892; Durand assisted him to some degree in execution of the plate. The print was shown in the Academy annual of that year-the only work and only time Schoff contributed to an Academy exhibition. This portrait presumably was painted sometime within a year of Schoff's election to the Academy in the late spring of 1844; thus it is among the last few portraits Durand executed.
