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 C. Bonnell (1804–1865) Portrait of a Man Oil on canvas, 29 1/8 × 24 1/4 inches Signed and dated in brown paint on verso: “William Bonnell/Pinxit/July 9th 1825” The portraitist William C. Bonnell was born in Clinton, New Jersey, the fourth child of Colonel Clement du Mont and Rachel Wolverton Bonnell. His grandfather served as a colonel during the American Revolution and owned a tavern that was the first place in the area where minutemen were recruited. Bonnell married Margaret Hinchman in 1836, and the couple had two children. Bonell belonged to the Bethlehem Presbyterian Church in Grandin and was buried in the church’s graveyard. Bonnell, who painted in a non-academic linear style, is known to have produced approximately twenty portraits between 1823 and 1833, some of which vary so widely in style that it is difficult to believe that they were all painted by the same artist. He was primarily active in New Jersey but is known to have traveled to neighboring Warminster, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, in 1833 to paint portraits of Andrew and Eliza Yerkes (Mercer Museum of the Bucks County Historical Society, Doylestown, Pennsylvania). He painted at least seven portraits of residents of Hunterdon County in 1825. Many of his likenesses, such as this example, are signed and dated in brown paint on the reverse. Tradition has it that he also painted a tavern sign for the Perryville Inn that is now owned by the Hunterdon County Historical Society in Flemington. The noted collectors of American folk art Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch acquired Bonnell’s portrait of his father Clement Bonnell (c. 1825) and presented it to the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., in 1953.¹ The Garbischs also presented three portraits of members of the Bonham family that Bonnell painted between March 4 and 5, 1825, to the Art Institute of Chicago in 1980. Notes 1. See Deborah Chotner, Julie Aronson, Sarah D. Cash, and Laurie Weitzenkorn, American Naive Paintings, The Collections of the National Gallery of Art, Systematic Catalogue (Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 1992), pp. 24–25; the Schwarz Gallery’s portrait is mentioned in n. 6, p. 25. Copyright ©2005 The Schwarz Gallery

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