Peter Van Dyke
Smithsonian American Art Museum

Peter Van Dyke

Margaret Maclay Bogardus, born 1804-died 1878 · ca. 1835

watercolor on ivory
Smithsonian American Art Museum
CC0 — Public Domain
Smithsonian American Art Museum

These portraits were painted while Margaret Maclay Bogardus was in New York. We do not know much about Peter Van Dyke and his wife, previously known as Susan Ann (Hickson) Lansing, but his name suggests he was a descendant of the earliest Dutch settlers of New Amsterdam, now New York.

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