William James Hubard
Jeremiah Hoffman and His Daughter, Harriet Emily Hoffman
1824-1834
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William James Hubard
Jeremiah Hoffman and His Daughter, Harriet Emily Hoffman
1824-1834
Physical Qualities
Oil on wood panel, Framed: 29 5/8 × 23 3/4 × 3 3/4 in. (75.2 × 60.3 × 9.5 cm.)
Sight: 20 3/8 × 14 3/8 in. (51.8 × 36.5 cm.)
Credit Line
Anonymous Gift
Object Number
1988.134
For several years, Jeremiah Hoffman represented his father’s dry goods firm, Peter Hoffman and Sons, in London. In 1814, he married Emily Tilghman and eventually settled at Chatsworth Hill, his estate in west Baltimore. Jeremiah and Emily Hoffman’s daughter, Harriet Emily, who was born in England, is shown here as a young woman in her late teens holding her father’s arm. Harriet eventually married Henry Thomas Weld, an Englishman from Southampton, and returned with him to live in western Maryland. The frame is original to the painting.
Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 1988; Robert Bell (1913-1987) and Anne McAdoo Deford (1917-2019), Baltimore, MD likely by descent, 1975; Robert Bell Deford, Jr. (1885-1952) and Dorothea Hoffman Deford (1890-1975); Samuel (1782-1852) and Elizabeth Rebecca Becker Curzon Hoffman (1796-1880), Baltimore, MD likely by descent; Henry Thomas (1816-1893) and Harriet Emily Hoffman Weld (1812-1892)(m. 1843), Mt. Savage, MD likely by descent or by gift; Jeremiah (1777-1834) and (m. 1814) Emily Tilghman Hoffman (1790-1813), Baltimore, MD likely by commission
On View at the BMA
