Jeremiah Hoffman and His Daughter, Harriet Emily Hoffman

c. 1830

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William James Hubard

Jeremiah Hoffman and His Daughter, Harriet Emily Hoffman

William James Hubard

Jeremiah Hoffman and His Daughter, Harriet Emily Hoffman

c. 1830

Physical Qualities Oil on wood panel, Framed: 29 5/8 × 23 3/4 × 3 3/4 in. (75.2 × 60.3 × 9.5 cm.) Sight: 20 3/8 × 14 3/8 in. (51.8 × 36.5 cm.)

Credit Line Anonymous Gift

Object Number 1988.134

For several years, Jeremiah Hoffman represented his father’s dry goods firm, Peter Hoffman and Sons, in London. In 1814, he married Emily Tilghman and eventually settled at Chatsworth Hill, his estate in west Baltimore. Jeremiah and Emily Hoffman’s daughter, Harriet Emily, who was born in England, is shown here as a young woman in her late teens holding her father’s arm. Harriet eventually married Henry Thomas Weld, an Englishman from Southampton, and returned with him to live in western Maryland. The frame is original to the painting.

Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 1988; Private Collection; Robert Bell Deford, Jr. (1885-1952) and Dorothea Hoffman Deford (1890-1975); Samuel (1782-1852) and Elizabeth Rebecca Becker Curzon Hoffman (1796-1880), Baltimore, MD likely by descent; Henry Thomas (1816-1893) and Harriet Emily Hoffman Weld (1812-1892)(m. 1843), Mt. Savage, MD likely by descent or by gift; Jeremiah (1777-1834) and (m. 1814) Emily Tilghman Hoffman (1790-1813), Baltimore, MD likely by commission