Henry Inman
Mrs. Samuel Owings Hoffman
1832
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Henry Inman
Mrs. Samuel Owings Hoffman
1832
Physical Qualities
Oil on canvas, Unframed: 30 × 25 in. (76.2 × 63.5 cm.)
Framed: 37 5/16 × 30 5/8 in. (94.8 × 77.8 cm.)
Sight: 28 1/4 × 24 1/4 in. (71.8 × 61.6 cm.)
Credit Line
Gift of Mrs. John Douglass Wade
Object Number
1942.44
Portrait of Louis Airey Gilmor Hoffman (Mrs.Samuel Owings Hoffman) by Henry Inman, 1833. Oil on canvas. Louis Hoffman (1804-1879) was the daughter of William Gilmor of Baltimore and his wife, Marianne Smith Drysdale. She married Samuel Owings Hoffman (1801-1860) on May 9, 1826. She is wearing a high-waisted white dress with a deep, V-shaped neckline, and is enveloped in a rich red shawl edged in fringe and a colorful band of embroidery. In the background there is the suggestion of a romantic, cloud-filled sky through which an area of blue appears in the upper left corner.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 1942; Louisa Gilmor Riach Wade (Mrs. John Douglass Wade)(1870-1962), Baltimore, MD by descent, 1896; Alexander Fridge (1825-1896) and Louisa Gilmore Hoffman Riach (1831-1884), Baltimore, MD by descent, 1879; Samuel Owings (1801-1860) and Louisa Airey Gilmor Hoffman (1804-1879)
Possibly, Academy of Music, Baltimore, "Charity Art Exhibition," March 16, 1876 to March 31, 1876, p. 20, no. 425 (lent by Mr. S. Hoffman)
Possibly, Maryland Historical Society, "Fourth Exhibition," 1853, p. 7, no. 98 (as "Portrait of a Lady," lent by Mrs. Hoffman)
The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Two Hundred and Fifty Years of Painting in Maryland," May 11, 1945 to June 17, 1945, p. 50, no. 114.
Possibly, Maryland Historical Society, "Fourth Exhibition," 1853, p. 7, no. 98 (as "Portrait of a Lady," lent by Mrs. Hoffman)
The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Two Hundred and Fifty Years of Painting in Maryland," May 11, 1945 to June 17, 1945, p. 50, no. 114.
Sona K. Johnston, "American Painting 1750-1900 from the Collection of The Baltimore Museum of Art," 1983, pp. 88-89, ill. p. 88.
Inscribed: None
