Sale 155 Lot 1437

JACOB EICHHOLTZ. (American, 1776–1842). "PHILLIP REIGART" (b .1788) and "SOPHIA DIFFENDERFFER REIGART" (b. 1784), Unsigned. Oils on canvas. Pair portraits, of husband and wife, Baltimore, MD., married May 1813.

Conservation report dated 3/14/94 by Josepha Caraher, Baltimore, MD is available. - Framed, 29 in. x 24 in.
Estimate $5,000-10,000

NOTE: The artist, whose grandmother was Anna Catherine Reigart, stayed with the Diffenderffer family when in Baltimore to paint portraits of prominent Baltimore citizens. Eleven portraits by Eichholtz are in the Smithsonian (National Portrait Gallery) Collection, Washington, DC. See "Worlds of Jacob Eichholtz, Portrait Painter of the Early Republic", Lancaster County Historic Society, ed. by Thomas R. Ryan, 2003.

PROVENANCE: Estate of Margaret Patterson, Baltimore, MD