In the 1990s, there was only one former Judge of the Court of Appeals whose portrait could not be found in Court of Appeals Hall: Chief Judge Charles H. Ruggles, who served on the Court from 1847-1853. As a result of this omission, Chief Judge Judith S. Kaye asked Judge Albert M. Rosenblatt to see if he could track down a portrait of Ruggles anywhere. After a lengthy search, Judge Rosenblatt found a small image of Ruggles in the Roswell Randall Hoes collection at the Senate House. That image was turned into an oil painting which was presented to the Court of Appeals in 1997 on the occasion of its 150th anniversary, and now hangs in Court of Appeals Hall. Judge Rosenblatt accounts this search in his biography of Chief Judge Ruggles on our website.
At long last, more portraits of Chief Judge Ruggles have been located in different phases of his life, one of which is housed at the Litchfield Historical Society and the other at the New York Historical.
