Portraits of the Right Reverend George Washington Doane (1799-1859)
      Second Bishop of New Jersey
Signature of GW Doane, second Bishop of New Jersey
Portrait of GWD, ca 1832, unknown artist
Portrait of GWD, 1834, Henry Inman
1837 Inman portrait of Bishop Doane, at Trinity College, Hartford
  1832-33: Unknown artist. Dated after October 1832 by the fact that GWD is wearing episcopal vestments. Medium: Oil pastel? Chalk? Hard to tell. The portrait is under glass. Location: Trinity Church, Boston, Massachusetts. Provenance: Unknown. 1834: Henry Inman Medium: Oil on canvas. Location: Union College, Schenectady, New York Provenance: The Right Reverend William Croswell Doane to his granddaughter Margaret Doane [Gardiner] Fayerweather. In 1938 it was purchased by Union College ‘as a gift of John L.March and others’. (Union College records) 1837: Henry Inman Medium: Oil on canvas. Location: Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut Provenance: The Right Reverend William Croswell Doane to his granddaughter Elizabeth Greene Gardiner. Bought in January 1958 from ‘funds provided by Clarence I. Penn (1912) of New York City’. (Trinity College records)
Portrait of GWD, 1841, George Richmond
Daguerreotype of GWD, 1844, Matthew Brady
Silhouette of GWD, 1843, Auguste Edouart
Portrait of GWD, 1856, James Reid Lambdin
1841: George Richmond Medium: Watercolour on paper. Location: Cynthia McFarland collection, Burlington, New Jersey. Provenance: Owned by a descendant of the Revd Charles Forster, for whom it was a gift. In May 2006 the portrait was given to Cynthia McFarland and is now in her collection. 1844: Matthew Brady, New York studio Medium: Daguerreotype Location: In the collection of the Library of Congress; numerous copies of the daguerreotype exist in the form of cartes de visite. Provenance: Unclear; Brady studio to Library of Congress? 1843: Auguste Edouart Medium: Pen (and white ink? albumen?) on paper Location: The location of the original silhouette is unknown. There is a reproduction in the 1890 book Silhouettes of Eminent Americans. 1853: James Reid Lambdin Medium: Oil on canvas. Location: St Mary’s Hall (now Doane Academy), in Burlington, New Jersey. The original is a life-sized portrait in colour. An engraving of it is widely found in collections throughout the Diocese of New Jersey. There is a small oil copy (unsigned) at the offices of the Diocese of New Jersey in Trenton. Provenance: Gift of John Stockton Littell, a member of the Board of Trustees of Burlington College. It hung in the college until the late 19th century, when it was moved to Saint Mary’s Hall. It is now in the anteroom of the Chapel of the Holy Innocents.
Bust copy of Lambdin portrait of GWD, 1856
Daguerreotype of GWD, 1858, unknown studio
Another daguerreotype of GWD, 1858, unknown studio
PDF of Bishop Doane portraits
After 1856: Artist unknown; copy after Lambdin. Medium: Oil on canvas Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania. This is a bust portrait after the Lambdin oil. Provenance: Formerly in the collection of the Episcopal Church in Germantown, Pennsylvania; from there to the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. 1858-59: Photographer and studio unknown. Medium: Daguerreotype and print of daguerreotype Location: Left image Cynthia McFarland collection, Burlington, New Jersey This is a 19th-print on paper of what appears to be a full-plate daguerreotype. Right image This daguerreotype was for sale on eBay in 2002. It was purchased by Cynthia McFarland in September 2005 from Mr Greg French, an antique photograph and daguerreotype dealer in Boston, Massachusetts and is now in her collection. The two images are quite obviously from the same daguerreotype sitting.

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Updated 1 May 2009
150 years to the day of Bishop GW Doane's funeral in Burlington, New Jersey