Maitland Armstrong

David Maitland Armstrong (April 15, 1836<ref name=Mait>Armstrong, Maitland. Margaret Armstrong (Ed.) (1920) Day before Yesterday: Reminiscences of a Varied Life. New York: Scribner, p. 157.</ref>May 26, 1918) was Charge d'Affaires to the Papal States (1869), American Consul in Rome (186971), and Consul General in Rome (187173).<ref name=frick>Armstrong, D. Maitland (David Maitland), 1836-1918 Archives Directory for the History of Collecting in America, The Frick Collection, 2014. Retrieved 30 June 2014.</ref> He was also an important stained-glass artist and a painter. Early life Armstrong was born in Danskammer, Newburgh, New York in 1836 and educated at Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut from 1854. He was the youngest of four sons of Edward Armstrong (1800–1840), a prominent local farmer, and his wife, Sarah Hartley Ward (1801–1853) of Charleston, South Carolina. Edward Armstrong added to the land already acquired by his father, until eventually he owned farms extending along a nearly two mile frontage of the Hudson River, and built a substantial house, the Edward Armstrong Mansion, now demolished, but with its huge Ionic columns on display in the grounds of the Storm King Art Center. His grandfather was Colonel William Armstrong, who came from Scotland with the British Army during the American Revolution. His grandfather was present at the Battle of Yorktown, as was his wife's grandfather, Colonel Nicholas Fish, but he was on the winning side. In his memoirs, Maitland wonders if they ever met.