Artist
Centurion, 1891–1896
Born 11 June 1821 in New York (Brooklyn), New York
Died 16 July 1896 in Saratoga Springs, New York
Buried Green-Wood Cemetery
, Brooklyn, New York
Proposed by Enoch Wood Perry and John L. Fitch
Elected 7 November 1891 at age seventy
Century Memorial
Platt P. Ryder was a well-known portrait painter, a pupil of Bonnat, whose artistic tastes and skill were recognized and appreciated by a large circle of patrons and admirers. He was the founder of the Brooklyn Academy of Design, but had of late years lived and painted in New York, and with such close application that his health suffered as the result. He was a quiet, unassuming man, especially happy in his home, and was held in the highest esteem by his friends and acquaintances.
Henry E. Howland
1897 Century Association Yearbook