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Mrs. Cornelius Baldwin (Mary Briscoe)

Philippe Abraham Peticolas, born Meziers, France 1760-died Petersburg, VA 1841

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.

Date

1797

Type

Painting-Miniature

Medium

watercolor on ivory

Department

SAAM

Institution

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Object number

saam_1943.3.2

Credit

Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase through the Catherine Walden Myer Fund