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Source Description
Mayer, a Baltimore painter, trained with the local artists Ernst Fischer and Alfred Jacob Miller before moving to Paris in 1864-69 to enroll in the studio of Charles Gleyre, the academic master who included among his pupils the impressionists Monet, Sisley, Bazille, and Renoir. Mayer seems to have been close to William T. Walters as a fellow member of the Allston Association, and as the Maryland Historical Societies assistant librarian for the Gallery of Fine Arts. Beginning in 1848 the Historical Society presented annual exhibitions of Old Master paintings and contemporary works drawn from local collections. Rhinehart was another artist who was on personal terms with William T. Walters and was also from Maryland. He executed portraits of William, his wife, Ellen, and his daughter, Jennie. This portrait therefore brought together two men from William's close circle of artistic friends.
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Document identity
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12113
label
Portrait of William Henry Rinehart
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Source metadata
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12113
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title
Portrait of William Henry Rinehart
description
Mayer, a Baltimore painter, trained with the local artists Ernst Fischer and Alfred Jacob Miller before moving to Paris in 1864-69 to enroll in the studio of Charles Gleyre, the academic master who included among his pupils the impressionists Monet, Sisley, Bazille, and Renoir. Mayer seems to have been close to William T. Walters as a fellow member of the Allston Association, and as the Maryland Historical Societies assistant librarian for the Gallery of Fine Arts. Beginning in 1848 the Historical Society presented annual exhibitions of Old Master paintings and contemporary works drawn from local collections. Rhinehart was another artist who was on personal terms with William T. Walters and was also from Maryland. He executed portraits of William, his wife, Ellen, and his daughter, Jennie. This portrait therefore brought together two men from William's close circle of artistic friends.
provenance
William T. Walters, Baltimore, 1867, by gift from the artist (?); Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1897, by inheritance [from 5 West Mt. Vernon Place]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
date
1865
citationUrl
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CC0
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en
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Painting & Drawing
paintings
portraits
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6
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6
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import
dimensions
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cm
width
31.1
height
25.4
dimensionsRaw
H: 12 1/4 × W: 10 in. (31.1 × 25.4 cm); Framed, H: 15 9/16 × W: 13 7/16 in. (39.5 × 34.2 cm)
Source extras
inscriptions
[Monogram and date] Front right: FM 1865; [Inscription] On reverse on stretcher: F.B. Mayer
pinxt 1865
to W.T. Walters
Esq.
1867.
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oil on canvas
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