The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of December 19, 2025

Side Chair

c. 1760

America, New York

mahogany
Overall: 105.4 x 57.2 x 54.3 cm (41 1/2 x 22 1/2 x 21 3/8 in.)
Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund 1988.32
Location: 204 Colonial American

Description

Chairs with their splats pierced with a decorative monogram are rare in eighteenth-century English furniture, and this chair is part of a unique American set. The initials "R.M.L." are those of Robert (1718–1775) and Margaret Beekman (1724–1800) Livingston of Clemont, a house on the Hudson River north of New York City.
  • Robert (1718-1775) and Margaret Beekman (1724-1800) Livingston of Clermont; their daughter Catherine Livingston Garreston (1752-1849; her daughter Mary Rutherford Garreston (d. 1879); several generations of the Tillotson Wainwright family.
  • “The Year in Review for 1988.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 76, no. 2 (February 1989): 30–75.
    Mentioned and reproduced: p, 69, no. 27 www.jstor.org
    Hawley, Henry. “A Livingston Chair.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 76, no. 9 (November 1989): 326–331. Mentioned and reproduced: p. 326-331, fig. 2 www.jstor.org
  • The Year in Review for 1988. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 1-May 14, 1989).
  • {{cite web|title=Side Chair|url=false|author=|year=c. 1760|access-date=19 December 2025|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

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