Sarah Miriam Peale
Catherine Embury Mankin
c. 1820
Physical Qualities
Oil on canvas, Framed: 49 1/4 x 39 3/8 x 3 in. (125.1 x 100 x 7.6 cm) Unframed: 40 x 30 1/8 in. (101.6 x 76.5 cm) Sight: 39 3/8 x 29 3/8 in. (100 x 74.6 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of the Misses Mankin
Object Number
1916.1.3
This may be a posthumous portrait of young Catharine Mankin, her death symbolized by the rose in her hand, plucked from the living bush.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 1916; Descended through the Mankin family, Baltimore, to the subject's nieces.
The Baltimore Museum of Art and the Walters Art Museum, "Women Artists," April 16, 1972 to June 18, 1972.
Sona K. Johnston, "American Painting 1750-1900 from the Collection of The Baltimore Museum of Art," 1983, pp. 127-128, ill. p. 127.
