Artist/Maker
Unidentified artist
After
Sir Henry Raeburn
(Scottish, 1756 – 1823)
Depicted
Peter Van Brugh Livingston
(American, 1792 – 1868)
Peter Van Brugh Livingston (1792-1868)
ca. 1819
oil on linen
Overall: 30 × 24 × 1 in. (76.2 × 61 × 2.5 cm)
Gift of the Ossining Historical Society through the courtesy of Mrs. Donald Ferguson.
1959.58
Peter Van Brugh Livingston, son of Philip Peter and Cornelia (Van Horne) Livingston, graduated from Columbia College in 1811. He married Harriet Elizabeth Houstoun. In 1848 President James Polk appointed him minister to Ecuador.
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