Joseph Sill selected diaries
name: label: Creator
content: Sill, Joseph, 1801-1854
label: Names
content: Art-Union of Philadelphia
label: Names
content: Artists' Fund Society
label: Names
content: National Academy of Design (U.S.)
label: Names
content: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
label: Names
content: Audubon, John James, 1785-1851
label: Names
content: Audubon, Victor Gifford, 1809-1860
label: Names
content: Carey, Edward L., 1806-1845
label: Names
content: Furness, William Henry, 1802-1896
label: Names
content: Hubard, William James, 1807-1862
label: Names
content: Huntington, Daniel, 1816-1906
label: Names
content: Lambdin, James Reid, 1807-1889
label: Names
content: Leutze, Emanuel, 1816-1868
label: Names
content: Morse, Samuel Finley Breese, 1791-1872
label: Names
content: Neagle, John, 1796-1865
label: Names
content: Page, William, 1811-1885
label: Names
content: Rothermel, Peter Frederick, 1812-1895
label: Names
content: Sartain, John, 1808-1897
label: Names
content: Saunders, George Lethbridge, 1807-1863
label: Names
content: Shaw, Joshua, 1776-1860
label: Names
content: Sully, Thomas, 1783-1872
label: Names
content: Watmough, Edward
label: Names
content: Waugh, Samuel Bell, 1814-1885
label: Names
content: Weber, Paul, 1823-1916
label: Names
content: Weir, Robert Walter, 1803-1889
label: Names
content: Winner, W. E. (William E), -1883
topic: label: Occupation
content: Art patrons -- Pennsylvania
label: Occupation
content: Painters -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
label: Topic
content: Art, American -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
label: Topic
content: Art -- Collectors and collecting -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Diaries
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Microfilmed for the Archives of American Art in 1955 by the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. Diaries donated to the Society by Edward Madiera.
creator: label: Creator
content: Sill, Joseph, 1801-1854
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Collector, amateur painter; Philadelphia, Pa.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 2 Items (partial microfilm reels)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1832-1854
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.silljose
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: 35mm microfilm reels P29-P30 available for use at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
originalsloc: label: Existence and Location of Originals
content: Originals in Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Joseph Sill diaries, Mss. collection # 600.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Ca. 850 pages of selected art related excerpts from Sill's diaries. The diaries date from 1832 to 1854 and document his own painting activities, his association with the Artists and Amateurs Association, Artists' Fund Society, and Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. He gives his reactions to the work of other artists as seen in exhibitions in Philadelphia and New York, especially at the National Academy of Design, as well as in private collections. He writes about panoramas shown in Philadelphia, purchases of works of art for himself and others, commissions to artists to paint pictures for him, etc. In particular he writes frequently of his friend, the collector and patron Edward L. Carey, and of Carey's collection. He often mentions John Sartain, James R. Lambdin, Peter F. Rothermel, Daniel Huntington, Thomas Sully, William H. Furness, Emanuel Leutze, George L. Saunders, Samuel B. Waugh, Paul Weber, William J. Hubard, Monachesi, and John Neagle. He tells of the founding and subsequent activities of the Art-Union of Philadelphia; the sale of Joshua Shaw's paintings and his misfortunes; the work and ill natured personality of William Page; meeting with and a drawing and description of John J. Audubon; a controversy between Robert W. Weir and Samuel F. B. Morse about who will paint the Mayflower Compact; V. G. Audubon's efforts to get subscribers for his father's book; and Bowen's lithographic shop.
label: Scope and Contents
content: He characterizes Edward Watmough and William E. Winner.