Ellen Sharples and James Sharples
Mrs. Robert Eglesfeld Griffith (Maria Thong Patterson)
c. 1793-1797
Scroll
- Artist: Ellen Sharples
- Artist: James Sharples
Mrs. Robert Eglesfeld Griffith (Maria Thong Patterson)
c. 1793-1797
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
BMA, "As Artists See Us: Drawings from the Museum Collection," 14 May - 11 August, 1991.
Jay Fisher and Sona Johnston, BMA, "BMA Collects: Nineteenth-Century American Drawings and Watercolors," 9 April - 8 June 1997.
Jay Fisher and Sona Johnston, BMA, "BMA Collects: Nineteenth-Century American Drawings and Watercolors," 9 April - 8 June 1997.
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.
