Active Dates: 18451“Spent in China Trade: A Sketch of the Life of the Late Gideon Nye,” The New York Times (New York, NY), March 4, 1888, 3, accessed April 20, 2020, https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1888/03/04/103163483.html?auth=login-email&pageNumber=3. – unknown
Gallerist: Gideon Nye
Location:
The Art Union Room, No. 497 Broadway2“Ancient Art in the New World,” Emerson’s Magazine and Putnam’s Monthly, May 1858, 492, accessed April 20, 2020, https://www.google.com/books/edition/Emerson_s_Magazine_and_Putnam_s_Monthly/MdyqH6GoNxoC?hl=en&g bpv=1&dq=nye+gallery&pg=PA492&printsec=frontcover.
Lyceum Gallery, No. 563 Broadway3Nye Gideon, Catalogue of the Pictures Forming the Collection of the Works of the Old Masters (New York, NY: G. F Nesbitt, printer, 1849), 2, accessed April 20, 2020, https://www.google.com/books/edition/Catalogue_of_the_Pictures_Forming_the_Co/Ba0aAAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gb pv=
Specialty: The gallery is most remembered for its Old Masters collection of paintings, sculptures, and engravings.4“New Gallery of Paintings,” The New York Times (New York, NY), March 4, 1858, 4, accessed April 20, 2020.
Gallery History
Gideon Nye (1812-1888)5“Nye, Gideon, 1812-1888,” The Frick Collection, last modified February 7, 2020, accessed April 24, 2020, https://research.frick.org/directory/detail/1254. is most notably remembered as a peripheral figure involved in Chinese- American trade: in 1843 he formed the House of Nye Parkin & Co. and in 1853 he withdrew from this firm and it was renamed Nye Brothers & Co. Nye spent minimal time in New York. His affiliation with the art world primarily has to do with his personal investments in art as a collector. He turned to New York in 1845 and exhibited a collection of paintings he bought in London which are affiliated with the Gallery of the Lyceum Building, a temporary rental space.6“Spent in China,” 3. Many existing records discuss Nye’s aspirations towards finding a permanent gallery space that resembles the British Gallery in London.7Gideon, Catalogue of the Pictures, 23.
Illustrations
Date Written: April 19th , 2020
Author’s Initials: CP
Primary Sources
“Ancient Art in the New World.” Emerson’s Magazine and Putnam’s Monthly, May 1858, 492. Accessed April 20, 2020.
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MdyqH6GoNxoC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=nye+gallery&pg=PA492&printsec=frontcover.
Gideon, Nye. Catalogue of the Pictures Forming the Collection of the Works of the Old Masters. New York, NY: G. F Nesbitt, printer, 1849. Accessed April 20, 2020.
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aAAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1.
The New York Times (New York, NY). “New Gallery of Paintings.”; March 4, 1858, 4. Accessed April 20, 2020.
The New York Times (New York, NY). “Spent in China Trade: A Sketch of the Life of the Late Gideon Nye.” March 4, 1888, 3. Accessed April 20, 2020.
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n-email&pageNumber=3.
“Nye, Gideon, 1812-1888.” The Frick Collection. Last modified February 7, 2020. Accessed April 24, 2020. https://research.frick.org/directory/detail/1254.
Illustration Sources
Catalogue of the Pictures Forming the Collection of the Works of the Old Masters, second ed. (New York, NY: George F. Nesbitt, Stationer and Printer, 1849), 9, accessed April 24, 2020,
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.32044034470062&view=1up&seq=12