New York Painting Begins: Eighteenth Century Portraits December 17, 2009

The NewYork Historical Society holds one of the nation's premiere collections of eighteenth-century American portraits. During this formative century a small group of native-born painters and European emigres created images that represent a broad swath of elite colonial New York society - landowners and tradesmen, and later Revolutionaries and Loyalists - while reflecting the area's Dutch roots and its strong ties with England.