Mary M. Phillips

Description Conservation Provenance Inscription Credit

Description Three-quarter, seated portrait of a young woman holding a cat in her lap, with a landscape background. Despite the inscription engraved on the back of the frame, which attributes this miniature to the American artist Rembrant Peale, it is likely European in origin.

Conservation

Date	Description	Narrative
1/14/1964	Treatment	cleaned
6/05/1964	Treatment	other

Provenance A. R. Peale Jr., Philadelphia [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; A.J. Fink, Baltimore, [date of acquisition unknown] by purchase; A.J. Fink Foundation, Inc., Baltimore, 1963, by bequest; Walters Art Museum, 1963, by gift.

Inscriptions [Inscription] On back of frame: Mary M. Phillips by Rembrandt Peale

Credit Gift of the A. Jay Fink Foundation, Inc., Baltimore, in memory of Abraham Jay Fink, 1963

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Creator

European (?) (Artist)

Period

ca. 1810

Medium

watercolor on ivory
(Miniatures)

Accession Number

38.435

Measurements

H excluding frame: 3 1/2 in. (8.89 cm)

Geographies

USA (Place of Origin)

Location Within Museum

Not On View