Oil on wood panel of woman in profile seated on red chair facing left. She wears a white head covering tied under her chin. A white triangular kerchief over her shoulders comes to a point at her waist. Her dress is black.
On back: Sally Franciscus 1/18/60
"The small family portrait that you own, painted on a poplar panel by Jacob Eichholtz, was painted approximately in 1811 as the few dated examples of this type are all of about that period." Sall Francis-cus
Joe K. Kendig III, Antiques, 325 W. Market St., York, Pennsylvania
The frame is one and five eighths inches, beveled toward portrait. it is painted gold with bumpers on lower corners. Present -day clamps (2) hold painted panel in frame.
Catherine Maria & daughter Margaret Amelia. Wife and daughter of Jacob Eichholtz.
Description
Label on back:
Catherine Maria & daughter Margaret Amelia. Wife and daughter of Jacob Eichholtz. Painted by him in 1814.
Presented by great granddaughter Vera Demuth.
Beale #209 (p.63)
illus. (p.302)
In 1803 Catherine Hotz married Jacob Eichholtz, by whom she had four children, Hotz was thought to be a descendant of John Hotz, a proprietor of Lancaster taverns, The State Arms and the Franklin Inn.
Painting: Oil on canvas, Fair/Good, crackling throughout, surface dirt, some mildew spotting, scuffing right center over boat, some in painting apparent under black light.
Painting conservation needs: Surface clean, remove old varnish, revarnish.
Frame: 2" painted wood and gold, Fair.
Frame conservation needs: Surface clean and minor touchup.
Object ID
1968.010.001
Notes
Frame measurements: Height 40.5
Width 54
Depth 2
Object should have new 3-digit # 001 added to existing # on the object. As of 01/31/22 the object ID number on the frame is 1968.010.
Painting: Oil on linen, 5 tears in canvas middle mid center, repaired with duct tape, Poor/Fair, crackling throughout, paint loss throughout with previous inpainting (5%).
Unframed watercolor portrait on paperboard of Louisa Anderson Henry (1848-1886), 2nd wife of Buck Henry. Within a shaded oval, subject is painted from waist up, facing a quarter turn to viewer's left. Long brown hair is contained within a large net tied at top with a bow. Hair net appears to be dark brown gouache. Checked dress has gauzy white collar pinned at front with a brooch.
Inscription: Signed in pencil at left edge near bottom corner with "Brady / N.Y."
Provenance
Passed to Pamela Henry (b. 1923) daughter of Buck's youngest son, Frank Anderson Henry; then to grand-niece Louisa Dent, donor.
Paperboard has age-darkened buff paper covering the front, now brittle and broken/cracked into multiple pieces. Appears to have been repaired with glue. Additional residue from adhesive at each corner, with traces of white paper attached (painting apparently had a cut-out overlay framing oval, since detached). Same adhesive residue w/ white paper at top of reverse.
Object ID
2015.028.2
Notes
Thought to have been painted by artist James Buchanan Henry who was her husband. (Patrick Clark)
Unframed watercolor portrait on paperboard of Louisa Anderson Henry (1848-1886), 2nd wife of Buck Henry. This is a copy of the original, 2015.028.2, by an unknown artist.
Subject is painted from waist up, facing a quarter turn to viewer's left. Long brown hair is contained within a large net tied at top with a bow. Checked dress has gauzy white collar pinned at front with a brooch. Blue-tinted background. Done apparently in watercolor and possibly colored pencil. Painting is rendered on an oval paper pasted onto a paper-covered paperboard. Oval painting is circumscribed by a penciled oval.
Inscription: In right bottom corner is written in pencil: "Copy by." over an illegible signature
Provenance
Descent within Henry family to home of Reginald Buchanan Henry (Buck's second to youngest son) to his grand daughter Louisa Dent (donor).
