Brooklyn Museum: American Art: David Leavitt

David Leavitt

This portrait was painted the year that the sitter moved from New York to Brooklyn, where David Leavitt had an interest in the Brooklyn White Lead Company (later Dutch Boy Paint). One of his partners in this enterprise was the BMA's founder, Augustus Graham. David Leavitt here looks up from his newspaper, which signals involvement as a citizen in the larger world of business and politics.

Artist: Samuel Lovett Waldo, American, 1783-1861
Medium: Oil on panel
Dates: ca. 1820-1825
Dimensions: 33 1/16 x 25 9/16 in. (83.9 x 65 cm)
Collections: American Art
Museum Location: This item is on view in American Identities: A New Look, 5th floor
Accession Number: 1996.43.1
Credit Line: Gift of Anna S. Delafield, Fisher Howe, Lawrence Howe and R. Warren Howe in memory of their brother, David Leavitt Howe (1915-1995)
Image: Overall, 1996.43.1_transp6103.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph

Collections: American Art: David Leavitt