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Portrait of Lydia Lloyd Murray
Alfred Jacob Miller1833
The Walters Art Museum
Baltimore, United States
This portrait, of the wife of Colonel Alexander Smith, and its companion piece (Walters 37.2773) are among Miller's few early documented works. The colonel's account book lists a payment of seventy-five dollars made for this pair of portraits on April 1, 1833.
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- Title: Portrait of Lydia Lloyd Murray
- Creator: Alfred Jacob Miller (American, 1810-1874)
- Date Created: 1833
- 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: Alfred Jacob Miller (American, 1810-1874)
- Provenance: Colonel Alexander Smith, Baltimore, April 1, 1833, by commission; Dr. and Mrs. Gerhard Schmeisser, Gibson Island, Maryland, [date of acquisition unknown] by inheritance; Walters Art Museum, 2006, by gift.
- Object Type: paintings; portraits
- Medium: oil on canvas
- Dimensions: framed: H: 37 1/8 x W: 32 1/8 in. (94.3 x 81.6 cm)
- Credit Line: Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Gerhard Schmeisser, 2006
- Classification: Painting & Drawing
- Accession Number: 37.2774
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