Artist/Art Patron
Centurion, 1903–1907
Born 27 June 1850 in New York (Manhattan), New York
Died 18 April 1907 in New York (Manhattan), New York
Buried Green-Wood Cemetery
, Brooklyn, New York
Proposed by Charles Y. Turner and George Willoughby Maynard
Elected 7 November 1903 at age fifty-three
Century Memorial
Bleecker Neilson Mitchill, though fifty-seven years old [sic: fifty-six] at the time of his sudden and unexpected death, had been only for three years a fellow-member. A patron of the fine arts, and a New Yorker by birth and ancestry, his life was devoted to the unobtrusive but efficient furtherance in this community of its artistic and literary interests. He was treasurer of the Fund for Superannuated Artists, an interested member of both the Metropolitan Museum and the New[-]York Historical Society. His was a fine combination of the life of contemplation and helpfulness.
William Milligan Sloane
1908 Century Association Yearbook