Mrs. Augustus Jay
Anna Maria Bayard (1670–after 1747) was the daughter of Balthazar and Maria Bayard and the grandniece of Peter Stuyvesant, governor of New Netherland. She was the grandmother of Chief Justice John Jay. The Bayard family was a part of the merchant and landholding aristocracy that dominated New York politics and society throughout most of the eighteenth century. Anna Bayard married Augustus Jay in 1697. The sitter is shown at a younger age than in a similar portrait dated 1710 (New-York Historical Society). The pose is based on a 1695 mezzotint of the Countess of Essex by John Smith after Sir Godfrey Kneller.
Artwork Details
- Title: Mrs. Augustus Jay
- Artist: Attributed to Gerrit Duyckinck (1660–ca. 1712)
- Date: ca. 1700
- Culture: American
- Medium: Oil on wood
- Dimensions: 31 3/4 x 22 1/2 in. (80.6 x 57.1 cm)
- Credit Line: Gift of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch, 1970
- Object Number: 1970.283.5
- Curatorial Department: The American Wing
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