Artwork & Artist
Gloucester City had many artist come to the waterfront over the years, the most famous being Thomas Eakins. During his time, Thomas Eakins personal and professional life was controversial and more recently the art community has reevaluated Eakins' personal life.
For more information on this matter we suggest reading the following article "Hundreds call for reckoning with American artist Thomas Eakins’s troubling legacy" by Benjamin Sutton published on The Art Newspaper.
Below are links to many of the images and the museums that have those images in their collections.
Also see the link below which is for an online flipbook:
"The Art and Illustrations of Gloucester on the Delaware"
Artist: G. Brown
"The Prospect of Philadelphia from Wickacove, exactly Delineated by G: Wood."
1735
Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library
Artist: Thomas Birch
Delaware below Glos'ter Point
1826
American Antiquarian Society
Artist: Thomas Birch
View of the Delaware near Philadelphia
1831
National Gallery of Art
Artist: John Hill
“Cottage at Gloucester Point - Philadelphia”
ca 1830
Note: Medcalf-Ellis house that was built in ca 1686 / British General Lord Cornwallis used as HQ in 1777. Colonel Joseph Ellis was Sheriff of Gloucester County as well as a Colonel in the New Jersey Militia.
( Painting is privately owned, also see the James Fuller Queen's image of the same structure in 1855. )
Artist: Edward Williams Clay
Gloucester Waterfront
1830
From the book in the "Memoirs of the Gloucester Fox Hunting Club".
THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY
https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47da-25cf-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99
Artist: Edward Williams Clay
Jonas Cattell (1758-1849)
Local soldier during the American Revolution,
He is here depicted in his role as the master of the hounds for the Gloucester Fox Hunting Club which operated from 1766 until 1818.
1830
From the book in the "Memoirs of the Gloucester Fox Hunting Club".
Facebook Group: "Gloucester City History in Photos"
Artist: Thomas Sully
Eliza Leslie ( Gloucester City resident)
1844
Eliza Leslie was a Gloucester City resident at the time of her death. She was a famous author and publisher when she lived in Philadelphia.
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts
Artist: James Fuller Queen
Printer: P.S. Duval & Co., printer.
"Washington Mills Gloucester NJ, near Philadelphia"
"On the Delaware opposite Philada. Glo'ster bleaching mills in the distance."
ca 1855
The American Antiquarian Society
Artist: James Fuller Queen
Printer: P.S. Duval & Co., printer.
"Shad fishing (taking up the net.)"
"On the Delaware opposite Philada. Glo'ster bleaching mills in the distance."
May 22, 1855
Library Company of Philadelphia:
Artist: James Fuller Queen
"Shad fishing Taking up the net above Chester, N.J."
"On the Delaware opposite Philada. Glo'ster bleaching mills in the distance."
May 22, 1855
Library of Congress
Artist: James Fuller Queen
"Bleaching Factory May 7th '54"
May 7th, 1855
Library of Congress
Artist: James Fuller Queen
"[Setting a net for shad]"
1855
Library of Congress
( this maybe south Camden City)
Artist: James Fuller Queen
"[House and factories as seen on the edge of a community]"
Note: Medcalf-Ellis house that was built in ca 1686 / British General Lord Cornwallis used as HQ in 1777. Colonel Joseph Ellis was Sheriff of Gloucester County as well as a Colonel in the New Jersey Militia.
ca 1855
Library of Congress
Artist: Thomas Eakins
Ships and Sailboats on the Delaware
1874
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Artist: Thomas Eakins
On the Delaware (Becalmed)
1874
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
Artist: Thomas Eakins
Sailboats Racing on the Delaware
1874
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Artist: Thomas Eakins
Mending the Net
1881
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Artist: Thomas Eakins
Drawing the Seine
1882
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Artist: Thomas Eakins
The Meadows, Gloucester
1882-1883
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Artist: Thomas Eakins
Hauling the Seine
1882
Princeton University Art Museum.
Gift of the Forbes Collection
Artist: Thomas Eakins
Shad Fishing at Gloucester on the Delaware River
1881
Elisabeth Ball Collection, gift of the George and Frances Ball Foundation
David Owsley Museum of Art Ball State University
Artist: Thomas Eakins
Mending the Net (study)
ca 1881
(private collection)
Artist: Thomas Eakins
Shad Fishing at Gloucester on the Delaware River
1881
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Artist: Thomas Eakins
Taking Up the Net
1881
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
