卢曼·里德 - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	卢曼·里德
品名（英）	Luman Reed
入馆年号	1963年，63.36
策展部门	美国之翼（The American Wing）
创作者	Asher Brown Durand【1796 至 1886】【美国人】
创作年份	公元 1835
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尺寸	30 1/8 x 25 3/8 英寸 (76.5 x 64.5 厘米)
介绍（中）	作为早期美国伟大的艺术赞助人之一，纽约的干货商人卢曼·里德为杜兰德、风景画家托马斯·科尔和类型画家威廉·西德尼·芒特的职业生涯提供了关键支持，并在他的房子里建了一个画廊，展示他们和老大师的作品。里德委托杜兰德为美国总统画像，并最终鼓励这位艺术家放弃最初的雕刻师职业，成为一名画家。尽管如此，他还是无法活着看到杜兰德作为一名风景艺术家绽放光彩。里德英年早逝，就在完成这幅坚实的肖像画的第二年。他的逝世令人悲痛不已；杜兰德在一封信中提醒科尔，里德是"我们再也见不到与他平等的人"。这位艺术家没有夸大其词，但里德的搭档乔纳森·斯特吉斯（Jonathan Sturges），这幅肖像是为他画的，凭借自己的权利成为了杜兰德、科尔和他们同事的重要赞助人。
介绍（英）	One of early America's great art patrons, the dry goods merchant Luman Reed of New York offered critical support to the careers of Durand, the landscape painter Thomas Cole, and the genre painter William Sidney Mount, and built a gallery in his house for the display of their work and that of the old masters. From Durand, Reed commissioned portraits of the nation's presidents and eventually encouraged the artist to abandon his original career as an engraver to become a painter. Still, he would not live to see Durand blossom as a landscape artist. Reed died untimely, just the year after the completion of this solid likeness. His passing was sorely mourned; Durand reminded Cole in a letter that Reed was "the man whose equal we shall never see again." The artist did not exaggerate, but Reed's partner, Jonathan Sturges, for whom this portrait was painted, became an important patron in his own right of Durand, Cole, and their colleagues.