William Clarke
Mrs. Levin Winder (Mary Stoughton Sloss)
1792
Physical Qualities
Oil on canvas, Overall: 37 7/8 x 32 13/16 in. (96.2 x 83.3 cm) Framed: 42 7/8 x 37 13/16 in. (108.9 x 96 cm)
Credit Line
Purchase with exchange funds from Mrs. C. Oliver Iselin Fund; and Dorothy McIlvain Scott Fund
Object Number
1981.166
Mary Stoughton Sloss married Levin Winder in 1790, three years before she sat to William Clarke. Her ambitious starched bonnet seems to mirror the upwardly mobile political aspirations of her husband, the future Governor of Maryland. A glimpse of the family’s estate on Monie Creek near Princess Anne, Somerset County, appears in the background.
Johnston, Sona. "American Paintings 1750-1900 from the Collection of the Baltimore Museum of Art." Baltimore: The Baltimore Museum of Art, 1983. pp. 33-34, ill. 34.
Baltimore Museum of Art. The American Wing. Brochure. Baltimore, MD: Baltimore Museum of Art, [198-?], unpaged.
On View at the BMA
