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Mr. Benjamin Schaum
Jacob Eichholtz · 1808–10
Provenance
Ownership history
- Commissioned from the artist by Mr. Benjamin Schaum (about 1765–1814), Lancaster, PA, 1808/10; by descent to his daughter Mrs. Frederick Augustus Hall Muhlenberg (born Elizabeth Schaum?), 1814; by descent to her son Henry Ernestus Muhlenberg; by descent to his daugher Mary E. Muhlenberg; by descent to her niece Mrs. John R. Starkey (born Anne Muhlenberg Kress); by descent to her child McDowell Kress Starkey, by 1954; sold to Edgar William Garbish (1899–1979) and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch (1906–1979), New York, NY and Pokety Farms, MD; by descent to their estate, 1979; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1980.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Art Institute of Chicago, Junior Museum: Of Little Importance: The Thorne Rooms and other Great Miniatures, Aug. 24, 1985–Jan. 1, 1988.
Literature
Published references
- Rebecca J. Beal, Jacob Eichholtz, 1776–1842: Portrait Painter of Pennsylvania (The Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 1969), 213, cat. 745; 279 (ill.), as Benjamin Schaum.
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