Jonathan Sturges was an American businessman, arts patron, and philanthropist.
Portrait of Sturges by Asher Brown Durand, c. 1840
Kindred Spirits, commissioned by Sturges as a gift for William Cullen Bryant in gratitude for the nature poet's eulogy to Thomas Cole.
A View of the Mountain Pass Called the Notch of the White Mountains, by Thomas Cole, 1839.
The Sturges House in Fairfield, Connecticut.
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