Jacob Eichholtz
Mrs. James Swan
1819-1834
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Jacob Eichholtz
Mrs. James Swan
1819-1834
Physical Qualities
Oil on canvas, Framed: 37 3/8 × 32 3/8 × 4 1/8 in. (94.9 × 82.2 × 10.5 cm.)
Unframed: 28 5/8 × 23 5/8 in. (72.7 × 60 cm.)
Credit Line
The Mary Frick Jacobs Collection
Object Number
1938.239
Portrait of Elizabeth Donnell Swan (Mrs. James Swan) by Jacob Eichholtz, c. 1825-1830. Oil on canvas. Elizabeth Donnell (1801-1836) was the daughter of John Donnell, a wealthy Baltimore merchant, and his wife, Ann Teackle Smith. In 1818, she married a prominent banker, James Swan, president of the Farmer’s Bank and later, of the Merchant’s Bank of Baltimore. She is shown wearing a white empire dress of dotted dimity-like material with lace at the neckline, a narrow, pale blue-green sash, and a pale blue shawl. Behind her, there is the suggestion of a deep red drapery. She has blue eyes, and her elaborately arranged hair is brown.
Baltimore Museum of Art by bequest, 1938; Mary Frick Jacobs (1851-1905), Baltimore, MD by gift, 1905; William Frederick (1817-1905) and Ann Elizabeth Swan Frick (1819-1889), Baltimore, MD likely by descent, 1859; James (1796-1859) and Elizabeth Donnell Swan (1801-1836), Baltimore, MD by commission
Sona K. Johnston, "American Painting 1750-1900 from the Collection of The Baltimore Museum of Art," 1983, p. 58.
"The Collection of Mary Frick Jacobs," privately published by Dr. Henry Barton Jacobs, Baltimore, 1938, n.p., ill. (as by Thomas Sully)
Beal, Rebecca J. "Jacob Eichholtz, 1776-1842, Portrait Painter of Pennsylvania," Philadelphia: The Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 1969, p. 236, no. 821
Baltimore's Westminster Cemetery & Westminster Presbyterian Church "A Guide to the Markers and Burials 1775-1943" Westminster Preservation Trust, Inc. on a grant from Maryland Humanities Council, Baltimore, MD, 1984, p. 25, #44
Hayward, Mary Ellen and Lancaster, R. Kent. "Baltimore's Westminster Cemetery & Westminster Presbyterian Church, A Guide to Markers and Burials 1775-1943" Westminster Preservation Trust, Inc., on grant from Maryland Humanities Coucil, Baltimore. 1984. pp. 14, 25.
Beal, Rebecca J. "Jacob Eichholtz, 1776-1842, Portrait Painter of Pennsylvania," Philadelphia: The Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 1969, p. 236, no. 821
Baltimore's Westminster Cemetery & Westminster Presbyterian Church "A Guide to the Markers and Burials 1775-1943" Westminster Preservation Trust, Inc. on a grant from Maryland Humanities Council, Baltimore, MD, 1984, p. 25, #44
Hayward, Mary Ellen and Lancaster, R. Kent. "Baltimore's Westminster Cemetery & Westminster Presbyterian Church, A Guide to Markers and Burials 1775-1943" Westminster Preservation Trust, Inc., on grant from Maryland Humanities Coucil, Baltimore. 1984. pp. 14, 25.
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