Mary M. Phillips

European (?)ca. 1810

The Walters Art Museum
Baltimore, United States

Three-quarter, seated portrait of a young woman holding a cat in her lap, with a landscape background.

Despite the inscription engraved on the back of the frame, which attributes this miniature to the American artist Rembrant Peale, it is likely European in origin.

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Title: Mary M. Phillips
Creator: European (?)
Date Created: ca. 1810
External Link: For more information about this and thousands of other works of art in the Walters Art Museum collection, please visit art.thewalters.org
Roles: Artist: European (?)
Provenance: A. R. Peale Jr., Philadelphia [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; A.J. Fink, Baltimore, [date of acquisition unknown] by purchase; A.J. Fink Foundation, Inc., Baltimore, 1963, by bequest; Walters Art Museum, 1963, by gift.
Object Type: miniatures (paintings); portraits
Medium: watercolor on ivory
Inscriptions: [Inscription] On back of frame: Mary M. Phillips by Rembrandt Peale
Geography: Place of Origin: Europe, Place of Origin: United States
Dimensions: H excluding frame: 3 1/2 in. (8.89 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of the A. Jay Fink Foundation, Inc., Baltimore, in memory of Abraham Jay Fink, 1963
Classification: Miniatures
Accession Number: 38.435

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