Henry Inman
Samuel Owings Hoffman
1832
Physical Qualities
Oil on canvas, Unframed: 30 × 25 in. (76.2 × 63.5 cm.)
Credit Line
Gift of Mrs. John Douglass Wade
Object Number
1942.43 (Dup#)
Portrait of Samuel Owings Hoffman by Henry Inman, 1833. Oil on canvas. Samuel Owings Hoffman (1801-1860) is the son of Peter Hoffman, Jr. (III) (1774-1837) and wife Deborah Owings Hoffman (1777-1855) (m. 1799). He married Louis Airey Gilmor (1804-1879), the daughter of William Gilmor of Baltimore and his wife, Marianne Smith Drysdale, on May 9, 1826. He was a businessman, a merchant, and a political figure who was well-respected citizen of Baltimore. Here, Samuel wears a black coat and cravat over a cream-colored vest. He sits in an armless chair covered with red upholstery fabric.
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)
Sona K. Johnston, "American Painting 1750-1900 from the Collection of The Baltimore Museum of Art," 1983, pp. 87-88, ill. p. 88 .
