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    "localId": "17058",
    "label": "Mrs. Jesse Hare (Catherine H. Welch)",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "drawing",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.2467"
}

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    "id": "17058",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.2467",
    "contentType": "drawing",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Mrs. Jesse Hare (Catherine H. Welch)",
    "description": "The subject of this portrait by Miller is Mrs. Jesse Hare (Catherine H. Welch) (ca. 1790-1874). She was born in Lynchburg, Virginia and also died there. On 11 October 1810 she married Jesse Hare (1789-1861) in Baltimore. Hare was an extremely wealthy tobacco manufacturer. She lived with her daughter, Eliza Credilla Hare, who, on her married in 1847 became Mrs. Decatur Howard Miller and sister-in-law to the artist. On 1 September 1848 A.J. Miller recieved a hundred dollars from his brother for his mother-in-law's portrait. Miller also painted the portraits of Mr. and Mrs. Howard Miller, which are now also owned by the museum (see WAM 37.2557 and WAM 37.2558).",
    "provenance": "Decatur H. Miller, 1848, commissioned from artist; Alfred J. Miller, Jr., (great-nephew of the artist) 1968, by inheritance; Walters Art Museum, 1970, by purchase.",
    "date": "1848",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.2467",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Painting & Drawing",
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        "portraits"
    ],
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL2_37.2467_Fnt_BW_H72.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL2_37.2467_Fnt_BW_H72.jpg",
    "imageCount": 4,
    "pageCount": 4,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 119.4,
            "height": 91.6
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 47 x W: 36 1/16 in. (119.4 x 91.6 cm)"
}

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    "med": "oil on canvas",
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    ],
    "collection_ids": [
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    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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