Miss Leman

Jacob Eichholtzc. 1808

Details

Title: Miss Leman
Creator: Jacob Eichholtz
Date Created: c. 1808
Physical Dimensions: overall: 21 x 17 cm (8 1/4 x 6 11/16 in.) framed: 33.7 x 28.4 x 4.4 cm (13 1/4 x 11 3/16 x 1 3/4 in.)
Provenance: Leman family, Lancaster, Pennsylvania; by descent to Adelia Leman [1857-1947], Lancaster, grandniece of the artist.[1] Acquired, likely purchased from Adelia Leman's estate, in 1948 by Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch, New York, and Cambridge, Maryland; gift 1953 to NGA. [1] Helen W. Henderson's opening comments in the brochure accompanying the 1943 exhibition _Jacob Eichholtz, 1776-1842, American Artist_ at the Philadelphia Art Alliance, report: "A peculiarly touching incident was a visit to the outskirts of Lancaster to see the collection of a grandniece of the painter's. She sat in her bower surrounded by these souvenirs of a rich past. A particularly charming phase of the artist's work is a series of small oval portraits on wood. Many of them are family portraits and we were fortunate in procuring four from her collection."
Rights: CC0
Medium: oil on wood

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