Master Schaum
1808–10
Medium
Oil on yellow poplar panel
Dimensions
22.9 × 17.5 cm (9 × 6 7/8 in.)
Classification
painting
Department
Arts of the Americas
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
61156
Rights
Public Domain
About this artwork
Working as a coppersmith in his hometown of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Jacob Eichholtz aspired to be a portraitist, eventually giving up his metalwork business to focus on painting by 1811. Despite having essentially no formal training in the medium, Eichholtz progressed quickly, becoming one of the leading portrait painters in Philadelphia and nearby areas. These portraits of the family of Benjamin Schaum (1980.742, 1980.743, and 1980.745), a fellow resident and coppersmith in Lancaster, are exam...
About the Artist
Jacob Eichholtz · 1776–1842
Comment on works: portraits