Portrait of Mrs. George Mayer

Mary Carpenter Smith Mayer (d. 1853) was the second wife of Colonel George Mayer, a prominent Lancaster merchant and war veteran. Jacob Eichholtz (1776-1842) was an early American painter, known primarily for his portraits in the Romantic Victorian tradition. Eichholtz was born in Lancaster, Pennsylvania to a family of prosperous Pennsylvania Germans and spent most of his professional life in Philadelphia. He is known to have painted over 800 portraits over the course of 35 years.