Sanford R. Gifford

Launt Thompson

1871 · Bronze · The American Wing

Sanford R. Gifford (1823–1880) based his atmospheric, light-filled paintings on the close study of nature, often depicting scenes in the Catskill and Adirondack Mountains. From 1857 until his death, he worked in New York City in the Tenth Street Studio Building, but he took frequent trips, both in the United States and abroad, to produce on-site sketches. Thompson, too, was a long-term occupant of the Tenth Street building and moved in the same circles as many of the Hudson River School painters. He modeled this realistic portrait just after Gifford served on a committee planning the formation of The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Artist

Launt Thompson

Date

1871

Medium

Bronze

Culture

American

Department

The American Wing

Credit line

Gift of Mrs. Richard Butler and her daughters, in memory of Richard Butler, 1902