Schwarz Gallery - Catalog 75 - New Jersery Remembered: Seventy-fifth Anniversary Exhibition



Catalogue Cover Title page Copyright/Colophon Preface & Acknowledgements Introduction (1 2 3 4 ) Thumbnail Images Plates [ sort by Artist ] Birch, Thomas Constable, William Gullager, Christian Lawrence, Unknown after Charles Bird Lawrence, Attributed to Charles Bird Eddy, Oliver Tarbell Winner, William E. Bonnell, William C. Bonfield, George Robert Carmiencke Johann Hermann Humphreys, Charles Spencer Toronto Jersey Blue Trotter, Newbold Hough Hamilton, James Beach at Atlantic City In the Inlet, Atlantic City Richards, Frederick de Bourg Beach Scene Atlantic City Beach Scene with Sailboats Herzog, Hermann Richards, William Trost New Jersey Shore Waves Crashing Against the Shore Bonfield, William van de Velde Lewis, Edmund Darch Cape May, New Jersey Looking up the Beach, Cape May Jersey Coast Beach Scene Essig, George Emerick Harbor View w/Sailboats & Steamers Jersey Shore Dunes Barnegat Lighthouse Atlantic City Windmill and Sailboat Willcox, William H. Smith, Xanthus Cape May Beach Atlantic City, New Jersey Three Figures w/Rowboat, A.C., N.J. Waller, Frank Church, Morristown Red Foliage with Cows Grazing The Beach Afternoon, Morristown House and Garden, Morristown Beale, Joseph Boggs Judson, William Lees Weber, Carl Clark, Frederick H. Holloway, Edward Stratton Freedley, George Harrison Atlantic City from the Bay Beach Scene, Atlantic City Morris, George Spencer King, Paul Bernard Patterson, Amelia Rumsey D’Ascenzo, Nicola Koehler, Paul R. Cameron, Peter Caledon Absecon Island, New Jersey Sandhills @ Ventnor: Atlantic City Island Sunset over the Salt Meadows Gloaming on Tuckerton Salt Marshes Creek and Marsh, Absecon Island Farley, Richard Blossom At the Seashore Ocean City, New Jersey People on the Beach Cain, Cecilia A. Sorver, J. D. Griffith, Ella N. Krick, David M. Schoonover, Frank E. Howard, Edith Lucile Sunset on the Jersey Marshes Beach Scene Gechtoff, Leonid Licini, Frank Lie, Jonas Kelly, Leon Sailboat Race, Harvey Cedars, NJ Barnegat Bay, Fishery Blackburn, Morris Atkinson Campbell, Hugh H. Chard, Daniel	William E. Winner (c. 1815–1883) James Pancoast Oil on canvas, 36 1/8 × 28 7/8 inches Signed and inscribed at lower center: “W. E. WINNER./PORTRAIT PAINTER/No. 35 No. 2nd St./Phila” Inscribed in ink on stretcher verso: “WINNER, W. E./JAMES PANCOURT OF BORDEN-TOWN, N.J./W 10076” William E. Winner was probably born in Philadelphia. Little is known of his early life until be began to exhibit at the Artists’ Fund Society in 1836. He exhibited portraits and genre, historical, and religious subjects at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts from then until 1869, and from 1878 to 1881; he was elected a member of the group in 1860. The Academy’s exhibition records indicate that Winner occasionally painted the human figures in seascapes by George Robert Bonfield (see plate 9) and landscapes by Isaac L. Williams (1817–1895). Winner was in Charlestown, South Carolina, in December 1848, where a local newspaper reported that he was painting portraits and exhibiting his Christ Restoring the Daughters of Jairus (location unknown). He was elected an honorary member of the National Academy of Design in 1850, where he exhibited from 1844 to 1875. Winner, who served in the 95th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry during the Civil War, was also a member of the Philadelphia Society of Artists and exhibited at the Apollo Association and the American Art Union in New York and at the Boston Athenaeum. One of his best-known works is Crazy Nora (c. 1860–65, Atwater Kent Museum, formerly Historical Society of Pennsylvania), a small full-length portrait of an eccentric woman who was a familiar sight on the streets of Philadelphia. Winner died in Philadelphia. This portrait probably dates from 1844, when Winner listed his address in Artists’ Fund Society exhibition catalogue as “Second above Market,” thus matching the “35 No. 2nd St.” given in the inscription. The inscription on the reverse identifies the sitter as James Pancourt of Bordentown, yet there is no record that such a person existed. This may in fact be James Pancoast, whose name appears in the 1840 New Jersey Burlingtown County and Chesterfield Township census. Records at the International Genealogical Index suggest that Pancoast was born in Philadelphia around 1773, one of four children born to Samuel and Sarah Stephens Pancoast.¹ The New Jersey State Archives in Trenton has a will and inventory (no. 15426C) of a James Pancoast of Bordentown that was filed in March, 1848. The document indicated that he had been in the lumber business, and was fairly wealthy. His estate, which was valued at $6,623.76, was divided among his three children (one of whom was described as being in a “state of alienation of mind”). The will mentions that his wife’s name was Sarah, and the New Jersey State Archives has a record that states a James Pancoast married Sarah Wright, daughter of Israel and Alice Wright, on Dec. 13, 1797 in Bordentown. It is quite plausible that these documents refer to the same person, and that this is the portly and elderly gentleman who appears in Winner’s portrait. Notes 1. See the Mormon Church’s genealogical records at their website: http://www.familysearch.org Copyright ©2005 The Schwarz Gallery

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