Portrait+of+Mrs.+Barbara+Baker+Murphy;+Portrait+of+Sea+Captain+John+Murphy

Date: ca. 1810
 * [[image:http://americanart.si.edu/images/1983/1983.95.56_1c.jpg link="http://www.americanart.si.edu/collections/search/artwork/?id=11503"]] || Title: **Portrait of Mrs. Barbara Baker Murphy (Wife of Sea Captain)**

Artist: **Joshua Johnson** Medium: oil on canvas 21 3/4 x 17 5/8 in. (55.3 x 44.8 cm.) American Art MuseumGift of Sol and Lillian Koffler

Accession: 1983.95.56

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 * [[image:http://americanart.si.edu/images/1983/1983.95.57_1c.jpg link="http://www.americanart.si.edu/collections/search/artwork/?id=11504"]] || Title: **Portrait of Sea Captain John Murphy**

Artist: **Joshua Johnson** Medium: oil on canvas 21 1/2 x 17 1/2 in. (54.6 x 44.5 cm.) Smithsonian American Art Museum Gift of Leonard and Paula Granoff

Accession:1983.95.57

[|High Resolution Image] || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Captain John Murphy, an immigrant from Ireland, lived with his wife in Baltimore, where Joshua Johnson painted many merchants, seamen, and their families. Johnson, a self-trained artist and former slave, is the earliest documented professional African American painter. In these portraits—intended to hang side-by-side—the artist delighted in fine details, from the captain's tousled hair to his wife's sheer lace collar.
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