Alfred Jacob Miller
Mrs. Henry Mankin and Child, Maria Theresa Mankin (Sarah Anne Foard Mankin and Maria Theresa Mankin)
1847
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Alfred Jacob Miller
Mrs. Henry Mankin and Child, Maria Theresa Mankin (Sarah Anne Foard Mankin and Maria Theresa Mankin)
1847
Physical Qualities
Oil on canvas, Sight: 36 1/4 x 45 in. (92.1 x 114.3 cm) Framed: 43 x 52 1/4 x 3 1/2 in. (109.2 x 132.7 x 8.9 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of the Misses Mankin
Object Number
1916.1.2
Alfred Jacob Miller began painting this portrait in November 1847, after an advance payment of $180 — a considerable sum at the time. Commissioned by Henry Mankin, a prominent Baltimore merchant and businessman, the picture depicts his second wife, Sarah Anne Ford Mankin (1807 – 1893) and their daughter, Maria Theresa Mankin (1845 – 1911). Mrs. Mankin gently holds her daughter’s hands in an attitude of prayer, perhaps inspired by Miller’s earlier copy of Sir Joshua Reynolds’ The Infant Samuel made during his travels in England. Miller’s copy of the Reynolds painting was exhibited in the Second Annual Exhibition of the Maryland Historical Society in 1849.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 1916; Descended through the Mankin family, Baltimore
Sona K. Johnston, "American Painting 1750-1900 from the Collection of The Baltimore Museum of Art," 1983, p. 103, ill. p. 104.
Inscribed: None
On View: American Wing Second Floor, Scott 08
