Andrew Varick Stout

Andrew Varick Stout

Charles Loring Elliott

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

A member of a prominent New York family, Stout (1812-1883) established the successful shoe company, Stout and Ward, and in 1855, became the founder and first president of the Shoe and Leather Bank. He also served as the director of several other banks and insurance companies, and was a supporter of both the Drew Theological seminary in New Jersey and Wesleyan University in Connecticut. An active civic leader in New York City and City Chamberlain (1857-60), Stout advanced his own money to pay the salaries of the police department during a shortage of public funds. In gratitude, they presented him with this portrait, which exhibits the characteristic detail and care of Elliott's style.

The American Wing

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

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The American Wing's ever-evolving collection comprises some 20,000 works of art by African American, Euro American, Latin American, and Native American men and women. Ranging from the colonial to early-modern periods, the holdings include painting, sculpture, works on paper, and decorative arts—including furniture, textiles, ceramics, glass, silver, metalwork, jewelry, basketry, quill and bead embroidery—as well as historical interiors and architectural fragments.