Title
Portrait of Elizabeth Chew Smith, 1762. Creator: Johan Hesselius.
Caption
Portrait of Elizabeth Chew Smith, 1762. The subject was born in 1742 or 1743, the daughter of Samuel Chew III of Anne Arundel County and his wife Sarah Lock. Since Elizabeth Chew was married on February 11, 1762, it is possible that the present painting was a marriage portrait. Her first husband was John Hamilton Smith, a resident and plantation owner of Calvert County; they had two daughters, Elizabeth Chew and Mary. Records for Saint James’s (Old Herring Creek) Parish show a large family with the name of Smith living there in the early eighteenth century. Elizabeth Chew Smith later married a man named Sprigg. It is not known whether this second marriage produced issue. She died sometime after 1800.
Credit line
Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art
Reference
HRM23B00_032
Model release
NA
Property release
NA
License type
Rights managed
Available size
52,7Mb (1,7Mb) / 12,4in x 16,5in / 3713 x 4960 (300dpi)