George Edwin Bissell, Ames Van Wart 37 Abraham de Peyster Abraham de Peyster ( r 657-I728), Dutch mer­ chant and official, was born in New Amster­ dam. This statuette is a small study for the large monument raised to the memory of his ancestor by John Watts de Peyster in the Bowling Green, New Y ark City, in 1896. Bronze, height 28 in. Signed: Geo. E. Bissell, Sculptor. Dated r893· Founder's mark: Fond. G. Vignali Firenze. REFERENCES: Catalogue of Sculpture (Metro­ politan Museum, 1908); Worlcs of Art Belong­ ing to the City of New York (r9o9). ExHIBITED: Architectural League, New Y ark, I 893 (bronze study); Paris, Salon of I 896 (study or monument?); Museum of the City of New Y ark, from 1948. GIFT OF GENERAL JoHN WATTS DE PEYSTER, 1906. Ames Van Wart Ames Van Wart lived in France for many years and is believed to have died there in I927. He exhibited marble portrait busts in 07.113 the Paris Salons of I904 and I905. In the in Poughkeepsie working for General de Pey­ Salon catalogues he was listed as a pupil of ster on monuments of his grandfather John Hiram Powers. He was a member of the Cen­ Watts (in Trinity Churchyard) and his ances­ tury Association from r87o to 1927. tor Abraham de Peyster (in Bowling Green). (See following entry and portrait bust of John Watts by R. B. Hughes.) Marble, height 2672 in. Signed: Geo. E. Bis­ Marshall Owen Roberts 27.I32 sell. Inscribed: (in cartouche at front) Mary Justina de Peyster daughter of John and Jane Bust of Marshall Owen Roberts (r8q-r88o), Watts; (at back) John Watts de Peyster, her American capitalist, politician, and art collec­ only child concepit. Died July 28th I82r. tor. Roberts was Vice-President of the Board Aged 19 years IO months and two days. of Trustees of the Metropolitan Museum in r87o and I87I. REFERENCE: Frank Allaben, John Watts de Peyster (I 908) (contains genealogies of the Marble, height 29 in. Signed: Ames Van Wart Watts and de Peyster families). Sc. Dated I 884. GIFT OF GENERAL JOHN wATTS DE PEYSTER, GrFT oF CAPTAIN MARSHALL 0. RoBERTs, 1907. 1927. .