Great-Grand-Father's Tale of the Revolution—A Portrait of Reverend Zachariah Greene

William Sidney Mount

1852 · Oil on canvas · The American Wing

This group portrait of the children of New York businessman Jacob Thuthill Vanderhoof and their maternal great-grandfather Reverend Zachariah Greene depicts the interior of the Vanderhoof residence at 55 Seventh Street. The family is surrounded by the trappings of a typical upper-middle-class parlor, including a tapestry velvet rug, elegant window draperies, a Rococo Revival armchair, and marble-topped center table. This is the type of parlor that most middle-class Americans would have desired during the mid-nineteenth century.

Artist

William Sidney Mount

Date

1852

Medium

Oil on canvas

Culture

American

Department

The American Wing

Credit line

Purchase, Morris K. Jesup and Maria DeWitt Jesup Funds, Gift of George I. Seney and Bequest of Vera Ruth Miller, by exchange; and Gift of Anita Pohndorff Yates, in memory of her father, F. G. Pohndorff, 1984