(American School). "Philipsburg Manor Upper Mills," Nineteenth Century. Pastel on paper, (15.5 x 19.25 inches); housed in a period giltwood frame.Frame: H: 18.125 in., W: 21.625 in., D: .625 in.Adolph (Adolphus) Philipse (1665-1750) was a wealthy merchant and politician with large landholdings in the lower Hudson River Valley. He also owned Philipsburg Manor, an estate of 50,000 acres located in the Bronx(Westchester, New York). Between 1680 and 1750 slaves constructed, operated and resided on the complex that consisted of a mill, manor house, bake house, slave house, wharves and a church.The Upper Mill complex was one of two headquarters for the manor, and was a commercial farmhouse. He dealt primarily in dry goods, from luxury to practical. The Caribbean trade provided sugar, rum, molasses, cacao, old iron and enslaved people. His New York items consisted of baskets and brooms made by Native peoples, and wheat, butter, ship's biscuits (hardtack) and lumber from the Manor property. Adolph Philipse never married and had no children.

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18.125 x 21.625 x 0.625 in