SEE: PICTURING PRESTIGE PORTRAITS AT MCNY

               Portrait of Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton by Ralph Earl, 1787

Picturing Prestige: New York Portraits, 1700-1860 at the Museum of the City of New York, 1220 Fifth Avenue by 103rd Street.  Drawn from the permanent collection of the Museum of the City of New York, Picturing Prestige: New York Portraits, 1700-1860, features works by many of the leading American painters of their day and captures the aspirations of the rising, upstart merchant city as it became the most populous and the most important port in the young country. In addition, the exhibition chronicles the changing nature of portraiture and artistic patronage, and ties together the lives of a group of leading citizens who enjoyed financial and social benefits that were beyond the reach of most New Yorkers.  More on this exhibit can be found at the MCNY website: LINK