Artist/Maker
Benjamin Franklin Reinhart
(American, 1829 – 1885)
Depicted
Charles Patrick Daly
(American, 1816 – 1899)
Charles Patrick Daly (1816–1899)
1874
Oil on canvas
Overall: 24 × 20 in. (61 × 50.8 cm)
Gift of the American Geographical Society
1946.135
Daly was born in New York to Irish parents who had emigrated from Galway in 1814, and was admitted to the bar in 1839. He was elected to the state assembly in 1843 and was appointed a judge of the New York City Court of Common Pleas the following year. He held the latter position for forty-one years, serving as chief justice from 1858. Daly was president of the American Geographical Society, which commissioned this portrait.
SignedSigned and dated at left: "B. F. Reinhart / 1874"
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