George Charles Miller
Robert Oliver (1759-1834)
1809
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George Charles Miller
Robert Oliver (1759-1834)
1809
Physical Qualities
Wax, pigment, Framed: 10 5/8 x 9 1/2 x 2 1/4 in. (27 x 24.1 x 5.7 cm) Overall: 4 1/4 x 2 1/4 in. (10.8 x 5.7 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Margaret Oliver Cromwell, Cockeysville, Maryland
Object Number
1993.78
Wax portrait miniature of Robert Oliver (1759-1834).
The Baltimore Museums of Art by gift, 1993; descended in the Cromwell Family
Bolton, Ethel Stanwood. Wax Portraits and Sihlouettes, The Massachusetts Society of the Colonial Dames of America, Boston. 1915, p. 75
Inscribed: UC, (blue pen), 'Robert Oliver 1759-1834'; C, (old brown ink) 'Robert Oliver/Geroge Miller - Artist -/No 172 North St. Baltimore/January 26th 1810'; all in script; label, LL Corner (red ink), 'For J(or I). D. Cromwell'