Mrs. Adrian Baucker Holmes
Charles Wesley Jarvis
ca. 1850
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
30 x 25 in. (76.2 x 63.5 cm)
Classification
Painting
Culture
American
Department
The American Wing
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Mrs. J. H. Blauvelt, 1913
Accession Number
13.21.8
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
PortraitsWomen
About the Artist
Charles Wesley Jarvis · 1812–1868
**Charles Wesley Jarvis (1812–1868)** was an American portrait painter and the second son of the renowned New York artist John Wesley Jarvis. Born in New York City, he followed directly in his father’s footsteps as a portraitist during the mid-nineteenth century. As the son of one of the leading portrait painters of the early republic, Jarvis trained in the family studio and absorbed the techniqu...