James Bogert, Jr.

Henry Inman

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The sitter was probably the New York City merchant (1767-1858) who married Betsey Benezet in 1796, lived on Bleecker Street, and is buried in New York Marble Cemetery on East Second Street.

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