Mrs. Cornelius Baldwin (Mary Briscoe)

Philippe Abraham Peticolas, Mrs. Cornelius Baldwin (Mary Briscoe), 1797, watercolor on ivory, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase through the Catherine Walden Myer Fund, 1943.3.2

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Philippe Abraham Peticolas painted Mary Baldwin (1767-1808) in Winchester, Virginia, at age thirty, twelve or thirteen years after her marriage to Dr. Cornelius Baldwin. She was the daughter of Gerard and Margaret Briscoe, whose portraits were painted by Charles Peale Polk. Mary had ten children and was the grandmother of Mary Julia Baldwin, for whom Mary Baldwin College, in Staunton, Virginia, was named.

Title

Mrs. Cornelius Baldwin (Mary Briscoe)

Artist

Philippe Abraham Peticolas

Date

1797

Location

Not on view

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