Portrait of Lydia Lloyd Murray

Description 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.

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.

Credit Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Gerhard Schmeisser, 2006