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Portrait of Lydia Lloyd Murray
(18th and 19th Centuries )
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
Provenance (from the French provenir, 'to come from/forth') is the chronology of the ownership, custody, or location of a historical object.
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.
Geographies
USA (Place of Origin)
Measurements
Framed H: 37 1/8 × W: 32 1/8 × D: 3 9/16 in. (94.3 × 81.6 × 9 cm); Frame Window H: 29 1/2 × W: 24 3/16 in. (75 × 61.5 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Gerhard Schmeisser, 2006
Location in Museum
Not on view
Accession Number
In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
37.2774
