OUR COLLECTION
In 1908, the future of Philipse Manor Hall was in jeopardy, due rapidly encroaching urban development and the building's impending obsolescence as the government center of an ever-growing metropolis. With so much doubt and uncertainty surrounding the site, several philanthropists banded together and raised $50,000 to preserve Philipse Manor Hall as a museum, eventually opening it up to the public in 1912.
Within that group of concerned citizens was the Smith Cochran family, leading global carpet manufacturers who owned a factory here in Yonkers. Eva Smith Cochran was instrumental in many philanthropic endeavors in Yonkers, including the preservation of Philipse Manor Hall. After saving the building, her son, Alexander, continued the family's support of the site, helping transform it from a municipal building to a place of historic and patriotic interests. From 1912 until his death in 1929, Alexander Smith Cochran would assemble a group of portraits of prominent Americans, including nearly all of the presidents from George Washington through Calvin Coolidge. When a particular portrait was unavailable for purchase, Alexander would have portraits commissioned to be completed.
Upon his death in 1929, Alexander Smith Cochran passed his collection to Philipse Manor Hall, where it has been exhibited in various forms ever since. The collection stands at 68 portraits, although the quality and condition of the portraits vary greatly.
THE ALEXANDER SMITH COCHRAN
COLLECTION OF AMERICAN PORTRAITURE
PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES
George Washington by James Peale
George Washington by Rembrandt Peale
George Washington by Charles Peale Polk
George Washington by Rembrandt Peale, copy after John Trumbullauart
George Washington copy by Asa Warren after Gilbert Stuart
George Washington by James or Ellen Sharples
General Washington Calling on Colonel Rhalle by J. Beaufain Irving
John Adams by William Winstanley
Thomas Jefferson by Charles Peale Polk
James Madison attributed to Henry Inman
James Monroe by Charles Willson Peale
John Quincy Adams by Thomas Sully
General Andrew Jackson attributed to Charles Bird King
Martin Van Buren by Henry Inman
William Henry Harrison by Bass Otis
John Tyler by Francis Bicknell Carpenter
James K. Polk by Thomas Sully
Zachary Taylor by an unidentified artist
Millard Fillmore by Francis Bicknell Carpenter
Franklin Pierce by an unidentified artist, copy after George P.A. Healy
James Buchanan by William E. McMaster
Abraham Lincoln by Alban Jasper Conant
Abraham Lincoln by Mathew Henry Wilson
Andrew Johnson by Charles X. Harris
Ulysses S. Grant by William Edgar Marshall
Rutherford B. Hayes by Thomas Eakins and Susan Macdowell Eakins
James A. Garfield by David Benjamin Bechtel
Chester A. Arthur by Eastman Johnson
Grover Cleveland by Eastman Johnson
Benjamin Harrison by Eastman Johnson
William McKinley by William Edgar Marshall
Theodore Roosevelt by S. Montgomery Roosevelt
William Howard Taft by William Sergeant Kendall
Woodrow Wilson by Richard Norris Brooke
Warren G. Harding by George Edgerly Harris
Calvin Coolidge by George Edgerly Harris
FIGURES FROM AMERICAN HISTORY
Thomas F. Bayard by George B. Butler
Henry Clay attributed to John Neagle
William H. DeLancy by Jacob Eichholtz
Benjamin Franklin by an unidentified artist, copy after Joseph S. Duplessis
George III by an unidentified artist, copy after Sir William Beechey
Robert Gilmor by Gilbert Stuart
Alexander Hamilton by James or Ellen Sharples
James Hamilton by James Peale
Tobias Hasbrouck by John Vanderlyn, Jr.
General Henry Knox attributed to Edward Savage
Marquis de Lafayette by an unidentified artist after Ary Scheffer
Henry Laurens by an unidentified artist, copy after John Singleton Copley
Colonel Henry Lee by James Herring, copy after Gilbert Stuart
John Marshall by William B. Chambers
Zebulon Montgomery Pike attributed to Rembrandt Peale
Charles Pinckney attributed to Albert Rosenthal, copy after Gilbert Stuart
John Van S. L. Pruyn by Eastman Johnson
Arthur St. Clair by an unidentified artist, 19th century
John Stark by Samuel F.B. Morse
Daniel D. Tompkins copy by an unidentified artist after John W. Jarvis
Brigadier General George Trotter by Mathew Harris Jouett
Martha Washington copy after Gilbert Stuart
William Wirt by Chester Harding
Robert Young by Gilbert Stuart
ARTISTS
Eastman Johnson by Eastman Johnson
Gilbert Stuart attributed to Jane Stuart
Benjamin West copy after Benjamin West
John Trumbull by an unidentified artist, copy after John Trumbull
OTHER
Eva Smith Cochran by an unidentified artist
Unidentified Man by an unidentified artist, previously thought to be Benjamin Franklin by Mathew Pratt
Unidentified British Officer by an unidentified artist
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