Sarah Biffin
Self-Portrait
1841
Physical Qualities
Watercolor and gouache on paper, Sheet: 330 × 251 mm. (13 × 9 7/8 in.)
Credit Line
Rhoda M. Oakley Prints, Drawings & Photographs Acquisitions Fund, Art Fund established with exchange funds from gifts of Dr. and Mrs. Edgar F. Berman, Equitable Bank, N.A., Geoffrey Gates, Sandra O. Moose, National Endowment for the Arts, Lawrence Rubin, Philip M. Stern, and Alan J. Zakon, and The John Dorsey and Robert W. Armacost Acquisition Endowment
Object Number
2022.199
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 2022; Philip Mould & Company, 2021; Sotheby’s, New York, The Ricky Jay Collection, 27 October 2021, lot 64; Ricky Jay (1946-2018)
Philip Mould & Company, London, "Without Hands: The Art of Sarah Biffin," November 1 - December 21, 2022.
Andaleeb Banta and Alexa Greist, "Making Her Mark: A History of Women Artists in Europe, 1400-1800," The Baltimore Museum of Art, October 1, 2023-January 7, 2024. Circulated to the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, March 30, 2024 - July 1, 2024.
Andaleeb Banta and Alexa Greist, "Making Her Mark: A History of Women Artists in Europe, 1400-1800," The Baltimore Museum of Art, October 1, 2023-January 7, 2024. Circulated to the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, March 30, 2024 - July 1, 2024.
Possibly Anonymous. Sarah Biffin: The Armless Artist of Quantoxhead. The Somerset Year Book, vol. XXIV, 1925, p.67.
Smith, E. & Rutherford, E. Without Hands: The Art of Sarah Biffin. Exh. cat., London: Paul Hoberton Publishing, 2022.
Inscribed: Recto, lower left: "Miss Biffin. Painted by herself without hands. 1842."
