Mrs. Stephen Van Rensselaer III (Cornelia Paterson)

Mrs. Stephen Van Rensselaer III (Cornelia Paterson)

Nathaniel Rogers

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The sitter (1780-1844) was the daughter of William Paterson, second governor of New Jersey and associate justice of the United States Supreme Court from 1793 to 1806. On May 17, 1802, she became the second wife of Congressman Stephen Van Rensselaer III of Albany. Robert Fulton (q.v.) also portrayed her.

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.