The Broadway show Hamilton: An American Musical introduced the world to three of the five daughters of Philip and Catharine Van Rensselaer Schuyler. In the play and other media, the women are often associated with indoor and metropolitan spaces. Join PhD student and New York State Museum Fellow Danielle Funiciello as she reintroduces and reconsiders all five women and the world in which they lived through image.

This lecture is presented in conjunction with our current exhibit Portraits and Landscapes which highlights the people and places that inspired the world of the Schuyler women and their peers, including Portrait of George Washington by Gilbert Stuart and Canajoharie about 1780 by Edward Buyck.

We are pleased to present our free HISTORY SERIES events on September 22, October 24, and November 3, each sponsored by Kinderhook Bank.

Admission to this program is free, and donations are welcome. For more information, call (518) 673-2314 or email Curator of Education & Public Engagement Jenna Peterson Riley.

Images:
Elizabeth Hamilton, ca.1787 by Ralph Earl, from a copy hanging at Schuyler Mansion State Historic Site
A View of Greenbush on the Hudsons River near Albany in the Province of New York, 1766 by Thomas Davies from the Detroit Institute of Arts