Artist/Maker
Peter Kohlbeck
(American, b. 1814)
Depicted
John Vaché Cox
(American, 1818 – 1882)
John Vaché Cox (1818-1882)
1857
Oil on cardboard
Overall: 12 1/2 × 10 1/2 in. (31.8 × 26.7 cm)
Gift of Isabella Vaché Cox
1935.63
The subject of this portrait was the eldest son of Dr. John Palmer Cox and Emilie (Vaché) Cox, and a brother of Emilie Aglae Cox (Mrs. Thomas Soden Henry). As a young man he was employed by Prall and Ray, a wholesale drug firm in New York. He later became a drug broker and a mercantile broker. His portrait was a gift to the Society from his daughter. Kohlback, who later in his career turned to photographic portraiture, probably painted it with the assistance of photographs.
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