Artist/Maker
Unidentified artist
Depicted
Samuel Boyd Thomson
(American, 1784 – 1850)
Samuel Thomson (1784-1850)
ca. 1835–1840
Oil on canvas
Overall: 34 in. × 27 1/8 in. (86.4 × 68.9 cm)
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Thomson Cookingham
1952.34
The subject, a native of Baltimore, was an architect in New York. He designed the old U.S. Customs House, later called Federal Hall, and various churches in lower and upper Manhattan. His letters and notes relating to the construction of the Customs House are in the manuscript division of The New-York Historical Society.
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