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| Keywords: Alfred Jacob Miller - Portrait of Colonel Alexander Smith (1790-1858) - Walters 372773.jpg Colonel Alexander Smith served in the Morgan Volunteers a Baltimore-based company of the organized militia of the state of Maryland during the 1830s the organized militia being the ancestor of the modern day Army National Guard The Morgan Volunteers were a specialized unit armed with rifles supplied by the state armorer at Annapolis This portrait and its companion piece Walters 37 2774 are among Miller's few early documented works The colonel's account book lists a payment of seventy-five dollars made for this pair of portraits on April 1 1833 1833 Oil on canvas framed cm 94 3 81 6 accession number 37 2773 3969 Colonel Alexander Smith Baltimore April 1 1833 by commission Dr and Mrs Gerhard Schmeisser Gibson Island Maryland date of acquisition unknown by inheritance Walters Art Museum Gift of Dr and Mrs Gerhard Schmeisser 2006 place of origin USA Walters Art Museum license 2D 1790 births 1833 paintings 1858 deaths 19th-century oil paintings in the United States Colonels Paintings by Alfred Jacob Miller in the Walters Art Museum People from Baltimore Maryland | ||||
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