Left Behind

John George Brown (1831-1913) Golden Locks Left Behind 1880

At a well

John George Brown (1831-1913) Have a Drink 1880

Saying Goodbye

John George Brown (1831-1913) Parted

Picking Cherries

John George Brown (1831-1913) The Cherry Picker 1875

Swinging on Gate

John George Brown (1831-1913) Swinging on a Gate, Southampson, New York 1878

A Posey for a Friend

John George Brown (1831-1913) The Button Hole Posey 1894

Pruning a tree

George Cochran Lambdin (American artist, 1830-1896) The Pruner 1868

Broken Parasol

John George Brown (1831-1913) Broken Parasol 1865

Richard Caton Woodville 1825-1855 - A Man's World - Baltimore

Richard Caton Woodville (American painter, 1825-1855) Politics in an Oysterhouse 1848


Richard Caton Woodville (1825-1855) was supported by his prosperous Baltimore family, who had hoped he would become a physician, in his endeavor to become an artist by trade.

Richard Caton Woodville (American painter, 1825-1855) Scene in a Bar Room 1845


His young artistic talent was stirred by his access to the art collection of early Baltimore art collector Robert Gilmore, whose collection included Dutch & Flemish genre paintings depicting domestic scenes of people in interiors.

Richard Caton Woodville (American painter, 1825-1855) Old 76 and Young 48, 1849


Some of Woodville's most delightful works are his genre scenes of Baltimore's citizens. Like many genre painters working for centuries before him, Woodville's paintings depict anecdotal details as well as unresolved conflict. Woodville was a storyteller.


Richard Caton Woodville (American painter, 1825-1855) The Card Players


Woodville recorded his early life in Baltimore in the form of drawings, including those depicting his University of Maryland medical school faculty during 1842-3, when he studied medicine.


Richard Caton Woodville (American painter, 1825-1855) News About the War in Mexico 1848


He finally decided to turn from medical studies to full-time painting; and in 1845, he sailed to study art in Düsseldorf.  He spent time in Europe, but his extant paintings reflect a relish for the people & interiors of American life.


Richard Caton Woodville (American painter, 1825-1855) Waiting for the Stage


While Woodville produced most of his work after leaving Baltimore in 1845 to travel widely in Germany, France & England, he continued to paint Maryland subject matter. He also sailed back to Baltimore for at least 2 visits after his 1845 departure.


Richard Caton Woodville (American painter, 1825-1855) The Sailor's Wedding 1852


Woodville died at age 30 from an overdose morphine

Richard Caton Woodville (American painter, 1825-1855)  Self Portrait 1853

Servant Girl

John George Brown (1831-1913) The Little Servant 1886

Everday Life - Reading & calculating

Thomas Hicks (American artist, 1823-1890) Calculating 1844

Women at Market in 1879 Texas

Thomas Allen (1849-1924) The Market Plaza, San Antonio 1879

American Women by Jacob Eichholtz 1776-1842

Jacob Eichholtz (American Painter, 1776-1842) Ann Old Coleman (Mrs. Robert Coleman), c. 1820


I first became aware of Jacob Eichholtz (1776-1842), when I roamed the halls of the Maryland Historical Society in Baltimore during the 1980s.  He was born north of Baltimore in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, where he tried his hand at being a tinsmith, a cooper, & a sign painter.  But his passion was for painting portraits.  He wrote of his unexpected friendship with Thomas Sully in Lancaster County in 1808, "Chance about this time threw a painter into the town of my residence. This in a moment decided my fate as to the arts. Previous to the arrival of this painter, I had made some rude efforts with tolerable success, having nothing more than a bootjack for a palette, and anything in the shape of a brush, for at that time brushes were not to be had, not even in Philadelphia. At length I was fortunate enough to get a few half-worn brushes from Mr. Sully, being on the eve of his departure for England. This was a great feast to me, and enabled me to go on until others were to be had."  In 1811, Eichholtz visited Gilbert Stuart in Boston, & began a lifelong series of exhibitions with the Society of Artists at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Probably before 1820, Eichholtz was painting portraits in Baltimore & beyond, from Pittsburg to Delaware.  By 1821, he had set up a studio in Philadelphia; where he painted, until he returned to Lancanster County in 1832, painting portraits until his death 10 years later.

Jacob Eichholtz (American Painter, 1776-1842) Anna Maria Eichholtz 1838

Jacob Eichholtz (American Painter, 1776-1842) Catharine Hatz Eichholtz 1833

Jacob Eichholtz (American Painter, 1776-1842) Clockmaker's Wife and Daughter

Jacob Eichholtz (American Painter, 1776-1842) Eliza Jacob

Jacob Eichholtz (American Painter, 1776-1842) Eliza Schaum (later Mrs. Frederick Augustus Hall Muhlenberg; 1798-1826) 1816

Jacob Eichholtz (American Painter, 1776-1842) Eliza Teackle Montgomery 1822

Jacob Eichholtz (American Painter, 1776-1842) Elizabeth Mrs Frederick Augustus Hall Muhlenberg

Jacob Eichholtz (American Painter, 1776-1842) Elizbeth Hoofnagle Markley b 1794

Jacob Eichholtz (American Painter, 1776-1842) Jane Buchanan Lane

Jacob Eichholtz (American Painter, 1776-1842) Julianna Hazlehurst, c. 1820

Jacob Eichholtz (American Painter, 1776-1842) Mehitabel Cox Markoe, ca. 1815

Jacob Eichholtz (American Painter, 1776-1842) Miss Julia Nicklin 1823

Jacob Eichholtz (American Painter, 1776-1842) Mrs Lawrence Lewis

Jacob Eichholtz (American Painter, 1776-1842) Mrs. Elizabeth Wurtz Elder and Her Three Children 1825

Jacob Eichholtz (American Painter, 1776-1842) Mrs. George Musser

Jacob Eichholtz (American Painter, 1776-1842) Mrs. Jacob Eichholtz 1818

Jacob Eichholtz (American Painter, 1776-1842) Mrs. John Frederick Lewis 1827

Jacob Eichholtz (American Painter, 1776-1842) Mrs. Pierre Louis Laguerenne

Jacob Eichholtz (American Painter, 1776-1842) Mrs. Robert Jenkins (Catharine Carmichael) 1836

Jacob Eichholtz (American Painter, 1776-1842) Mrs. Victor René Value; Her Daughter Victoria Matilda; and Her Stepson Jesse René 1826

Jacob Eichholtz (American Painter, 1776-1842) Mrs. Walter Franklin 1814

Jacob Eichholtz (American Painter, 1776-1842) Phoebe Cassidy Freeman (Mrs. Clarkson Freeman), c. 1830

Jacob Eichholtz (American Painter, 1776-1842) Portrait of a Woman

Jacob Eichholtz (American Painter, 1776-1842) Serena Mayer Franklin 1838

Jacob Eichholtz (American Painter, 1776-1842) The Ragan Sisters, 1818

Jacob Eichholtz (American Painter, 1776-1842) Unknown Sitter 1815

Jacob Eichholtz (American Painter, 1776-1842) Jane Evans Tevis

Jacob Eichholtz (American Painter, 1776-1842) Margaret Hager Hoff

Jacob Eichholtz (American Painter, 1776-1842) Maria Schaum, circa 1810

Jacob Eichholtz (American Painter, 1776-1842) Mrs John Gibson

Jacob Eichholtz (American Painter, 1776-1842) Mrs. Belle Cohen

Jacob Eichholtz (American Painter, 1776-1842) Miss Thomson

Jacob Eichholtz (American Painter, 1776-1842) Mrs Longnecker

Jacob Eichholtz (American Painter, 1776-1842) Rebecca Trissler Eichholtz

Jacob Eichholtz (American Painter, 1776-1842) Self-Portrait 1810