Materials: Bronze, porphyry granite (polished).Description: Seated figure (over life-size) with integral plinth, on pedestal.On July 8, 2014, the 357th anniversary of de Peyster's baptism, the sculpture was rededicated in the presence of more than two dozen de Peyster descendants. After a prolonged search for a new home in Lower Manhattan, it was placed in a recessed niche in the northern pathway of Thomas Paine Park in 2013. The World Trade Center attacks of Septemagain brought about the displacement of the de Peyster sculpture, when in 2003 Hanover Square was redesigned and dedicated to the memory of the British victims of 9/11. It was relocated four years later to a new pink granite pedestal in Hanover Square. In 1972, park and subway renovations at Bowling Green forced removal of the statue. Vandalism to the statue prompted the resetting of the sword in 1939, and an overall conservation effort in 1942. He depicted De Peyster, sporting a lavish cloak, wig, army boots, and sword in hand marking his political and military roles. Arthur (1898) located in Madison Square Park, as well as that of John Watts in Trinity Church cemetery. He also sculpted the portrait of President Chester A. Bissell, whose family ran a marble company in Poughkeepsie, New York, sculpted the piece in his studio in Mount Vernon, New York, and cast the bronze at the E. In 1896 John Watts De Peyster, Abraham’s great-great-great grandson, commissioned this statue for the center of Bowling Green, once occupied by a statue of King George III. De Peyster amassed great wealth, and by the end of his life, he is said to have been one of the city’s wealthiest merchants. He quickly ascended the City’s political ladder, occupying almost all of the important colonial offices, including alderman, mayor, member of the king’s council, and acting governor. In his youth, he spent nine years working on the family farm in the Netherlands, before returning in 1684 to New York. Born in New Amsterdam (now known as Manhattan), De Peyster came from a prosperous mercantile family. This bronze portrait statue, by American sculptor George Edwin Bissell (1839-1920), depicts early New York Mayor Abraham De Peyster (1657–1728). This text is part of Parks’ Historical Signs Project and can be found postedwithin the park.
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