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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. NYPSOL_160915_001.JPG: Edna Barnes Salomon Room Room 316 The New York Public Library's Salomon Room, which was recently refurbished and modernized as a Wi-Fi reading and study room, is home to some of the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building's most important paintings. Many of these art works belonged to the families of James Lenox and John Jacob Astor, 19th-century philanthropists whose great private libraries became two of The New York Public Library's foundational collections. On view in the Salomon Room today are the works of a number of important British and American artists, including portraits by Reynolds, Raeburn, Romney, Trumbull, and Stuart. ... Some Paintings of Special Note: George Washington (by Rembrandt Peale), ca 1859 / ca 1850. Peale is best known for his many paintings of George Washington, two of which hand in the Salomon Room. The Man from New York (John Quinn) (by Augustus John), 1909. The chief patron of the 1913 Armory Show, Quinn also acquired original literary manuscripts by such avant-garde writers as James Joyce, Ezra Pound, and T.S. Eliot, whose manuscript of The Waste Land is today one of the treasures of the Library's Berg Collection. Quinn's papers, including his voluminous correspondence with most of the great modernist writers and artists of the first two decades of the 20th century, are held by the Manuscripts and Archives Division. Truman Capote (by James Whitney Fosburgh), 1971. This portrait of Capote -- author of such 20th-century classics as Breakfast at Tiffany's and In Cold Blood -- was the gift of the author's estate. Capote's literary archive is held in NYPL's Manuscripts and Archives Division. The Blind Milton Dictating "Paradise Lost" to His Daughters (by Mihaly Munkacsy), 1877. Munkacsy's masterpiece won a grand gold medal at the 1878 Paris Exposition. Unfortunately, the once jewel-like colors of the painting have dimmed owing to the artist's use of asphaltum (bitumen) paint, which darkens -- irreversibly -- with time. John Jacob Astor IV (by Leon-Joseph-Florentin Bonnat), 1896: A member of the celebrated Astor family -- which has played such an important part in the history of The New York Public Library -- John Jacob Astor IV was en route from his honeymoon in Europe after a second marriage in 1912 when he perished on board the ill-fated Titanic. Kitty Fisher (by Sir Joshua Reynolds), ca 1764-65: The famous actress Kitty Fisher was only in her twenties when she died tragically from an overdose of arsenic (like many women of her time, she had ingested small amounts of the poison to lighten her skin). Reynolds captured the notorious beauty in a moment of contemplation, her eyes demurely lowered and one arm cradling a dove.
2. NYPSOL_160915_010.JPG: Robert Lenox, c 1805 John Trumbull
3. NYPSOL_160915_015.JPG: John Wesley Jarvis, c 1809-1815 Robert Lenox
4. NYPSOL_160915_021.JPG: Washington Irving, 1820 Charles Robert Leslie
5. NYPSOL_160915_025.JPG: David Sproat, 1788 Artist Unidentified
6. NYPSOL_160915_028.JPG: Elizabeth Sproat Lenox Maitland, c 1810 Gilbert Stuart
7. NYPSOL_160915_031.JPG: James Lenox, 1861 George Peter Alexander Healy
8. NYPSOL_160915_034.JPG: Lady of the Lenox Family, c 1829 John Wesley Jarvis
9. NYPSOL_160915_041.JPG: Robert Lenox Kennedy, 1890 Daniel Huntington
10. NYPSOL_160915_045.JPG: Alexander Hamilton II
11. NYPSOL_160915_051.JPG: Lady Shelley, 1795 George Romney
12. NYPSOL_160915_057.JPG: Sir Timothy Shelley, 1795 George Romney
13. NYPSOL_160915_061.JPG: George Long Duyckinck, 1848 Artist Unidentified
14. NYPSOL_160915_066.JPG: Samuel F. B. Morse, 1827 Fitz-Greene Halleck
15. NYPSOL_160915_069.JPG: Sir Henry Raeburn, 1819 Peter Can Brugh Livingston
16. NYPSOL_160915_075.JPG: Penelope Macdonald Hamilton, Lady Belhaven and Stenton, c 1800 Sir Henry Raeburn
17. NYPSOL_160915_079.JPG: Arrival of the Great Western Steam Ship off New York on Monday 23rd April 1838, c 1840 Joseph Walter
18. NYPSOL_160915_084.JPG: Broadway Looking North at Grand Street, c 1850 Robert Bond
19. NYPSOL_160915_087.JPG: View of Quebec, c 1855 Artist Unidentified
20. NYPSOL_160915_091.JPG: The New York Public Library, 1920 George Biddle
21. NYPSOL_160915_095.JPG: George Washington, c 1859 Rembrandt Peale after Gilbert Stuart
22. NYPSOL_160915_103.JPG: George Washington, c 1850 Rembrandt Peale
23. NYPSOL_160915_106.JPG: Raoul Wallenberg, 1983 Lotte Stavisky
24. NYPSOL_160915_111.JPG: The Man from New York, John Quinn, 1909 Augustus Edwin John
25. NYPSOL_160915_114.JPG: Worthington Chauncey Ford, 1924 Lilla Cabot Perry
26. NYPSOL_160915_120.JPG: Truman Capote, 1971 James Whitney Fosburgh
27. NYPSOL_160915_125.JPG: Louis Ernest Barrias, 1878 Mihaly Munkacsy
28. NYPSOL_160915_129.JPG: John Milton, 18th century Artist Unidentified
29. NYPSOL_160915_133.JPG: Oliver Cromwell, 1857 Artist Unidentified
30. NYPSOL_160915_136.JPG: John Jacob Astor, 1836 Edward Dalton Marchant
31. NYPSOL_160915_139.JPG: William Backhouse Astor, 1883 Eastman Johnson after George A. Baker, Jr.
32. NYPSOL_160915_144.JPG: John Jacob Astor III, c 1890 Harper Pennington after Raimondo de Madrazo y Garreta
33. NYPSOL_160915_158.JPG: John Jacob Astor IV, 1896 Leon-Joseph-Florentin Bonnat
34. NYPSOL_160915_209.JPG: Blind Milton dictating "Paradise Lost" to his Daughters, 1877 Mihaly Munkacsy
35. NYPSOL_160915_220.JPG: Frolicsome Girl (or Rezvushka), 1873 Matvei Afanasevich Chizhov
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