Lieutenant Governor George Clarke
Oil on canvas painted by James Fellowes (1710-1780)
Active in Cheshire, England (1735-1751)
c.1750
Governor George Clarke returned to England in 1745, remodeled Hyde Hall, his family seat in Cheshire, and died there on January 12, 1760. He commissioned this portrait about 1750. It remained in England until it was sent to the American Hyde Hall in the 1880s.
Ann Cary Cooper Clarke (1783-1850)
Oil on canvas painted by Charles Ingham (1797-1863)
1835
Ann Cary Cooper Clarke was the daughter of Col. Richard Cary, of George Washington’s staff. She married Richard Cooper (1775-1813), the oldest brother of novelist James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851), and a land agent for George Clarke. After Richard Cooper’s death in 1813, she married George Clarke (1768-1835), the builder of Hyde Hall.
George Clarke (1769-1835)
Oil on canvas painted by Adrian Lamb, copy of original portrait by Samuel F. B. Morse in 1829
1976 copy of 1829 original
This is a copy of the original by Samuel F. B. Morse (1791-1872), painted in 1829, which is in the St. Louis Museum of Fine Arts. Morse spent two summers in the Cooperstown area and executed a number of portraits of local inhabitants as well as at least one landscape, View From Apple Hill. Apple Hill was a house built by Richard Fenimore Cooper in 1800 and owned by his widow, Ann Cary Cooper Clarke in the 1820s.
Anna Clarke Pell (1817-1899)
Carrera Marble made by Henry Weekes (1807-1877)
London, England
1852
Henry Weekes (1807-1877), was one of the most popular English sculptors in the mid-Victorian period. He won a gold medal at the Crystal Palace Exhibition in London in 1851, which inspired the Pells to commission this portrait in 1852. Bust is signed Henry Weekes A.R.A Sc.1852.
