Miss Leman

c. 1808

Jacob Eichholtz

Artist, American, 1776 - 1842

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Artwork overview

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Leman family, Lancaster, Pennsylvania; by descent to Adelia Leman [1857-1947], Lancaster, grandniece of the artist.[1] Acquired, likely purchased from Adelia Leman's estate, in 1948 by Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch, New York, and Cambridge, Maryland; gift 1953 to NGA.
[1] Helen W. Henderson's opening comments in the brochure accompanying the 1943 exhibition Jacob Eichholtz, 1776-1842, American Artist at the Philadelphia Art Alliance, report: "A peculiarly touching incident was a visit to the outskirts of Lancaster to see the collection of a grandniece of the painter's. She sat in her bower surrounded by these souvenirs of a rich past. A particularly charming phase of the artist's work is a series of small oval portraits on wood. Many of them are family portraits and we were fortunate in procuring four from her collection."

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1912

  • Loan Exhibition of Historical and Contemporary Portraits Illustrating the Evolution of Portraiture in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania..., Woolworth Building, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, 1912, no. 156c, as Margaret Adelia Leman.

1943

  • Jacob Eichholtz, 1776-1842, American Artist, Philadelphia Art Alliance, 1943, no. 23, as Margaret Adelia Leman.

1954

  • American Primitive Paintings from the Collection of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1954, pl. 50, as Margaret Adelia Leman.

1955

  • American Primitive Paintings, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1955.

2003

  • The Worlds of Jacob Eichholtz, Portrait Painter of the Early Republic, shown at one of three simultaneous venues: Lancaster County Historical Society, Pennsylvania, 2003, unnumbered catalogue, repro.

Bibliography

1913

  • Hensel, William U. "Jacob Eichholtz, Painter." Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 37 (1913): 69, as Margaret Leman.

1960

  • Milley, John Calvin. "Jacob Eichholtz, 1776-1842." Master's thesis, University of Delaware, 1960: 308, as Margaret Adelia Leman.

1969

  • Beal, Rebecca J. Jacob Eichholtz, 1776-1842. Philadelphia, 1969: 135, repro. 283.

1970

  • American Paintings and Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1970: 56, repro.

1980

  • American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1980: 154, repro.

1992

  • American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 171, repro.

1996

  • Kelly, Franklin, with Nicolai Cikovsky, Jr., Deborah Chotner, and John Davis. American Paintings of the Nineteenth Century, Part I. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 1996: 201, 204, color repro. 203.

Inscriptions

possibly by another hand, lower left: [upper line illegible] / Sept 22 18[11?]; lower right, possibly in another hand: JE Scrip

Wikidata ID

Q20182526

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