Henry Peters Gray was an American portrait and genre painter.
Watercolor miniature portrait of Gray by Henry Colton Shumway (1807–1884), at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1842
L to R.: Henry Kirke Brown, Henry Peters Gray and Asher Brown Durand, 1850
The Greek Lovers at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1846
The National Academy of Design is an honorary association of American artists, founded in New York City in 1825 by Samuel Morse, Asher Durand, Thomas Cole, Frederick Styles Agate, Martin E. Thompson,
The academy's previous building at 1083 Fifth Avenue
The National Academy of Design in New York City. It was one of many Gothic revival buildings modeled on Doge's Palace in Venice. Demolished 1901.
The National Academy School of Fine Arts