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Frederick A. P. Barnard

fl. 1880–1881 · United States

President of Columbia College, active 1880–1881. Worked with Charles Patrick Daly and William Cowper Prime.

Life and work

  1. October 1880
    Cesnola, in October 1880, asked the Executive Committee of the trustees for an investigation of Feuardent's charges (published Aug 1880 in The Art Amateur); at the trustees' request the inquiry was undertaken by President F. A. P. Barnard (head, per Marangou; Columbia College), Dr Roswell D. Hitchcock, Judge Charles P. Daly, J. Q. A. Ward and William C. Prime. Feuardent was invited but not allowed to nominate a member, and stopped attending when the committee's purpose, in his and the magazine's view, became clear.

    New YorkThe End of the… 1884, p. 96The Feuardent-Cesnola Trial (Editorial… 1883, p. 4aMarangou 2000, p. 309

  2. 5 January 1881
    Committee hearing at which Cesnola, per the Art Amateur, declared: 'In the entire collection I have not made a single restoration of any object or part of any object in stone.' (Lawrence Kane, a Times reporter, testified that Cesnola read a reply to the committee at W. C. Prime's house in East 23rd Street and handed out printed slips.) The committee 'unanimously reported that the charges were without foundation'; Cesnola sent Newton a printed copy of the report on 27 Jan 1881.

    New YorkThe Feuardent-Cesnola Trial (Editorial… 1883, pp. 4a-4bThe Feuardent-Cesnola Trial 1883, p. 23Marangou 2000, pp. 309-311

  3. February 1881
    The Mar. 1884 report quotes the committee's finding that 'each and all of the charges are without foundation' and that if Cesnola had erred it was 'in too rigidly refraining from making repairs where correctness was reasonably certain'; The Sun, reprinted there after the 1884 verdict, said the testimony at trial had 'conclusively demonstrated that the investigation of the Barnard committee was a sham', that its conclusions on the seven statues it specially examined were in nearly every case wrong (statue 22's hand is attached by a wooden dowel; the reunion of No. 39 doubtful; the mirror of the 'Venus' cut into the ancient surface).

    New YorkThe End of the… 1884, p. 96

  4. c. 1881
    Trial witnesses for Feuardent, as reported: the photographer George C. Cox said Prime took President Barnard of Columbia College to the statue with a ball in its hand and, with an arm round Barnard's neck, said 'I'll show you a statue which, on my word of honor as a man, is just as it was taken from the earth', the day after Cox had seen that statue in the repair-room with its head off; Cox also said the committee declined his offer to show restorations he had seen. Dickson B. Alley said only statue No. 40 was soaked, and that Alley, Henkel and Lennon were never called.

    New YorkThe Feuardent-Cesnola Trial 1884, p. 55

Connections

6 people
Luigi Palma di CesnolaGaston Louis FeuardentWilliam Cowper PrimeRoswell Dwight HitchcockJohn Quincy Adams WardCharles Patrick DalyFrederick A. P. Barnard
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Sources

  1. 1.A. G. Marangou (ed.) (2000). The Consul Luigi Palma di Cesnola 1832-1904: Life and Deeds.
  2. 2. (1883). “The Feuardent-Cesnola Trial (Editorial Supplement)”. The Art Amateur 10, 4a-4b. Online
  3. 3. (1884). “The Feuardent-Cesnola Trial”. The Art Amateur 10, 55-56. Online
  4. 4. (1884). “The End of the Feuardent-Cesnola Trial”. The Art Amateur 10, 96-97. Online
  5. 5. (1883). “The Feuardent-Cesnola Trial”. The Art Amateur 10, 23-24. Online