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Mrs. Cornelius Baldwin (Mary Briscoe)
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About this work
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.
Smithsonian American Art Museum’s own descriptionSubjects
Credit lineMrs. Cornelius Baldwin (Mary Briscoe). 1797. Philippe Abraham Peticolas, born Meziers, France 1760-died Petersburg, VA 1841. Smithsonian American Art Museum, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase through the Catherine Walden Myer Fund. CC0.
