Benjamin Moore McVickar

Charles Cromwell Ingham

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The sitter (1799-1883) was a New York City physician, named for his mother's first cousin Benjamin Moore, the second Episcopal bishop of New York City. The piece probably dates from the time of McVickar's marriage to Isaphene Catherine Lawrence on November 2, 1825.

The American Wing

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

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.

Metropolitan Museum of Art