Merchants Exchange, Philadelphia: E portico cornice
Strickland; Strickland, William (American architect, painter, and engraver, 1788-1854)
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Portrait of Benjamin Henry Boneval Latrobe
"During his first term as President, in March 1803, Thomas Jefferson appointed Benjamin Latrobe Surveyor of Public Buildings. It may have been in recognition of this honor that Latrobe's good friend Charles Willson Peale painted this portrait for his Philadelphia gallery of distinguished persons. . . . ". . . The Latrobe portrait is not listed in [the artist's] museum Accession Book, begun about [1804], so it was probably painted later that year or early in 1805. . . . ". . . The artist boldly blocked in the ear, and he deftly brushed in the curly hair, sometimes dragging a nearly dry brush in short arcs. The silver-rimmed spectacles pushed back into the hair are incompletely indicated, almost improvised. "The face is handsome, but the artist is concerned first with character and mind. It is a moody, introspective likeness, alive with intellect." (Kloss, William, et al. Art in the White House: A Nation's Pride. Washington, D.C.: The White House Historical Association, 2008.)
Peale, Charles Willson (American painter, 1741-1827)
Charles Willson Peale [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons; http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b7/Benjamin_latrobe_by_peale.jpg
John Lewis Krimmel emigrated from his native Germany to Philadelphia in 1810. At first he supported himself by painting portraits and teaching drawing but soon began to paint images of Philadelphia life; he may, in fact, be the earliest American artist to specialize in genre scenes. Krimmel was actively involved with the then-new Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts until his death by drowning in the Schuylkill River. "Fourth of July in Centre Square" depicts a broad range of the city's population, including fashionable ladies and gentlemen, plainly dressed Quakers, and African-American citizens. Latrobe's Philadelphia Water Works, shown at left, was considered a marvel of engineering as well as an icon of neo-classical design for the growing city. The clean water provided by its steam-driven pumping station also made possible America's first public fountain, the centerpiece of which was "Water Nymph and Bittern," an allegory of the Schuylkill River carved by William Rush.
Krimmel, John L. (American painter of German birth, 1786-1821)
Pennsylvania Academy purchase (from the estate of Paul Beck, Jr.)
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Philadelphia: Bank of Pennsylvania: general view
Latrobe, Benjamin Henry (British architect and engineer, 1764-1820, active in the United States)
Philadelphia: Bank of Pennsylvania: Ref.: demolition
view of the demolition of the Bank of Pennsylvania in 1867
Philadelphia: Bank of Pennsylvania: section
view of demolition of the Bank of Pennsylvania building in 1867
Philadelphia: Bank of Pennsylvania: Exterior Reconstruction
Watercolor rendering of the Bank of Pennsylvania, as viewed from the North-East. Latrobe prepared this presentation drawing for Samuel Mickle Fox, president of the Bank of Pennsylvania.
Drawing Toward Building, Philadelphia Architectural Graphics, 1732-1986 (1986) after p.116, pl.1
Philadelphia: Bank of Pennsylvania: ground plan
Plan of the Bank of Pennsylvania, rendered from Benjamin Henry Latrobe's own drawings.