Floor plan

Artist galleriesJohn Adams Elder's contemporaries

John Adams Elder's contemporaries

Life-size painting of an urban scene in Paris. A man in a top hat holding an umbrella and a woman in a long fashionable dark dress walk arm in arm toward the viewer as other city dwellers with umbrellas walk in various directions across cobblestone roads and sidewalks.
Artist: John Adams Elder, Sitter: Robert Edward Lee, Current owner: National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
Artist: John Adams Elder, Sitter: Thomas Jonathan Jackson, Current owner: National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
Color pastel drawing of ballerinas in tutus on stage, watched by audience.
Young Husband: First Marketing, by Lilly Martin Spencer, 1854

The works in this room are listed below.

Works in this room

A few works by John Adams Elder, then their contemporaries: makers of the same nationality born within 25 years of them, then works from the same century and place.

First room, north wall

  1. Life-size painting of an urban scene in Paris. A man in a top hat holding an umbrella and a woman in a long fashionable dark dress walk arm in arm toward the viewer as other city dwellers with umbrellas walk in various directions across cobblestone roads and sidewalks.
    Paris Street; Rainy DayGustave Caillebotte, 1877Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago
  2. Artist: John Adams Elder, Sitter: Robert Edward Lee, Current owner: National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
    Robert Edward LeeJohn Adams Elder, 1876Courtesy of the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

First room, south wall

  1. Artist: John Adams Elder, Sitter: Thomas Jonathan Jackson, Current owner: National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
    Thomas Jonathan JacksonJohn Adams Elder, 1876Courtesy of the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
  2. Color pastel drawing of ballerinas in tutus on stage, watched by audience.
    Ballet at the Paris OpéraEdgar Degas, 1877Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago
  3. Young Husband: First Marketing, by Lilly Martin Spencer, 1854
    Young Husband: First MarketingLilly Martin Spencer, 1854Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Second room, south wall

  1. The Monkey Bridge, by Katsushika Taito II, early 1830s
    The Monkey BridgeKatsushika Taito II, early 1830sCourtesy of the Cleveland Museum of Art
  2. Oil painting
    Harmony in Green and Rose: The Music RoomJames McNeill Whistler, 1860-1861Courtesy of the National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian Institution
  3. Lear and Cordelia, by Richard Hatfield, 1845
    Lear and CordeliaRichard Hatfield, 1845Courtesy of the Smithsonian American Art Museum