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Abraham Shoemaker
(18th and 19th Centuries )
Waist-length, three-quarter to right portrait of a young man with wavy, light brown hair, wearing a dark blue coat, yellow vest, high white collar and black stock with a rectangular gold pin.
This portrait may show Abraham Shoemaker (1785-1832), a member of the Philadelphia bar who succeeded his father, also called Abraham, as Associate Justice in 1818. He married Hannah Huddel in 1823.
Thomas Sully is known to have executed about 60 miniatures, mostly before 1806.
Inscription
Provenance
Provenance (from the French provenir, 'to come from/forth') is the chronology of the ownership, custody, or location of a historical object.
Shoemaker family; 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.
Conservation
| Date | Description | Narrative |
|---|---|---|
| 6/23/1964 | Treatment | other |
| 1/8/1965 | Treatment | cleaned |
Geographies
USA (Place of Origin)
Measurements
H excluding frame: 3 1/2 x W: 3 in. (8.89 x 7.62 cm); Framed H: 6 1/2 x W: 5 7/8 in. (16.51 x 14.92 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of the A. Jay Fink Foundation, Inc., Baltimore, in memory of Abraham Jay Fink, 1963
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.
38.456