Ellen Sharples, James Sharples
Mrs. Robert Eglesfeld Griffith (Maria Thong Patterson)
1792-1796
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Ellen Sharples, James Sharples
Mrs. Robert Eglesfeld Griffith (Maria Thong Patterson)
1792-1796
Physical Qualities
Pastel on brown paper, Sheet: 216 × 171.5 mm. (8 1/2 × 6 3/4 in.)
Credit Line
Purchase with exchange funds from Gift of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch, Gift of Mrs. C. Oliver Iselin, Gift of Blanchard Randall, and Gift of Andrew Speir; and W. Clagett Emory Bequest Fund, in Memory of his Parents, William H. Emory of A and Martha B. Emory
Object Number
1986.117
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 1986; Mrs. Charlotte Insley Carter; Mrs. Alan W. Insley, Salisbury, MD; by inheritance through the sitter's family
Making Her Mark: A History of Women Artists in Europe, 1400-1800
Neil Jeffares, 'Dictionary of pastellists before 1800,' London: Unicorn Press, 2006, 496.
Katherine McCook Knox, "The Sharples, Their Portraits of George Washington and His Contemporaries." New Haven: 1930, p. 95.