Marshall Roberts Collection

The collection, which featured many prominent American artists and works, including Emanuel Leutze's Washington Crossing the Delaware, remained intact following his 1880 death until it was auctioned off in 1897.

[9] Roberts built an art gallery, attached to his home, 107 Fifth Avenue (at the southeast corner of 18th Street), where he displayed his collection, which included Rembrandt Peale's Babes in the Wood,[10] Daniel Huntington's Venice, Good Samaritan[11] and Old Lawyer,[12] Frederick Stuart Church's Rainy Season in the Tropics[b] and Coast of Maine, Régis François Gignoux's Hawk's Nest, West Virginia,[c] Richard Caton Woodville's War News from Mexico, Asher Brown Durand's Indian Rescue, Schaeffele's Marie de Medici's Visit to Ruben's Studio, Johann Georg Meyer's First Lesson, Constant Troyon's After the Hunt, Paul Falconer Poole's Pension Agent, Charles Verlat's Sheep in Pasture, Paul Delaroche's Napoleon at Fontainbleau, Ernest Meissonier's The Smoker (1849) Thomas Sidney Cooper's Monarch of the Plain, Édouard Frère's Mother and Infant and The Industrious Mother,[13] John Frederick Kensett's Noon by the Sea Shore[d] and Franconia Notch, Henry Peters Gray's Rose of Fiesole and Just Fifteen,[15] George A. Baker's Love at First Sight,[16] Wild Flowers and Children of the Wood, John George Brown's His First Cigar,[17] Thomas Cole's Old Mill, James McDougal Hart's Old Homestead and Morning in the Adirondacks,[18] William Henry Powell's Landing of the Pilgrims,[19] William Sidney Mount's Raffling for a Goose,[20] Robert Swain Gifford's On The St. Lawrence and View of Quebec, Eugene Benson's Thoughts in Exile, Thomas Sully's Woman at the Well and A Girl Offering Flowers at a Shrine,[21] Seymour Joseph Guy's A Field Daisy and Good Sister,[22] Charles Loring Elliott's Portrait of Himself, and George Henry Boughton's Gypsy Women, Jean-Léon Gérôme's The Egyptian Conscript,[23] James Augustus Suydam's On the Beach, Charles Baugniet's Dressing for the Ball, Benjamin Vautier's The Letter, as well as works by M. H. Koekkoek Édouard Detaille.

[5] In addition to the 1876 Indian Vase by his son-in-law Ames Van Wart, Robert's collection included 1,000 different numbers in bronze, art objects and furnishings.

His sculptures included Erastus Dow Palmer's medallion base-reliefs Night and Morning, Franklin Simmons's The Promised Land,[24] and Voso's Cupid and Psyche.

[6] In 1897, Susan hired Messrs. Ortgies & Co. of the Fifth Avenue Art Galleries, under the management of Samuel P. Avery, Jr., to auction off the entire collection.