Portrait of Mrs. Barbara Baker Murphy (Wife of Sea Captain)
ca. 1810
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 55.3 × 44.8 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-134513
Joshua Johnson, a self-trained artist and former slave, is the earliest documented professional African American painter. His sitters were Captain John Murphy and his wife, Irish immigrants who lived in Baltimore, where Johnson painted many merchants, seamen, and their families. In these portraits--intended to hang side-by-side--the artist delighted in fine details, from the captain's artfully ar…
Provenance
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Sol and Lillian Koffler
Registry history
- ca. 1810 — Recorded in the collection of Smithsonian American Art Museum
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