Edward Ludlow Mooney

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Armenians in Turkish Costume - Oriental Fantasy , around 1848,
oil on canvas, National Academy Museum, New York.

Edward Ludlow Mooney (born March 25, 1813 in New York ; died 1887 in Upper Red Hook ) was an American portrait painter .

life and work

Mooney studied painting from 1835 at the National Academy of Design , in which he was accepted as a full member in 1840. He first worked as a draftsman before he became assistant to Henry Inman in 1837 , probably New York's best-paid portrait painter; also counted William Page to his teachers. He first began to make copies of Inman's works, such as a portrait of President Martin Van Buren , which earned him national attention. In his studio in New York he later specialized in the production of representative portraits. Among other things, he painted a number of portraits of mayors for City Hall , and numerous officers and professors at Princeton University had him paint them. His portrait of Ahmad bin Na'aman bin Muhsin bin Abdulla Al-k'abi al Bahrain, emissary of the Sultan of Muscat in the United States, and his portrait of Governor William Seward for the New York State Capitol in Albany . After his death the "Edward Ludlow Mooney Collection" was donated to the New York State Museum by Deaconess Amy Green Thompson and Reverend MPH Huntington . Mooney visited Columbus in 1847 . He portrayed Oliver Hazard Perry and some of the leading members of society from the southern states, including the plantation owner John Fontaine (1792–1866) and John L. Mustian from Columbus with their wives.

  • Ahmad bin Na'aman

  • Oliver Hazard Perry

  • Jasper Francis Copsey

literature

Web links

Commons : Edward Ludlow Mooney  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Edward Ludlow Mooney. National Porttait Gallery, accessed December 15, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Mooney, Edward Ludlow
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mooney, Edward L.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American portrait painter
DATE OF BIRTH March 25, 1813
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City
DATE OF DEATH 1887
Place of death Upper Red Hook