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Miss Schaum
Provenance
Commissioned from the artist by Mr. Benjamin Schaum (about 1765–1814), Lancaster, PA, 1808/10; by descent to his daughter Mrs. Frederick Augustus Hall Muhlenberg (born Elizabeth Schaum?), 1814; by descent to her son Henry Ernestus Muhlenberg; by descent to his daugher Mary E. Muhlenberg; by descent to her niece Mrs. John R. Starkey (born Anne Muhlenberg Kress); by descent to her child McDowell Kress Starkey, by 1954; sold to Edgar William Garbish (1899–1979) and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch (1906–1979), New York, NY and Pokety Farms, MD; by descent to their estate, 1979; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1980.
Exhibition history
Art Institute of Chicago, Junior Museum: Of Little Importance: The Thorne Rooms and other Great Miniatures, Aug. 24, 1985–Jan. 1, 1988.
Publications
Rebecca J. Beal, Jacob Eichholtz, 1776–1842: Portrait Painter of Pennsylvania (The Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 1969), 215, cat. 752; 280 (ill.), as Young Woman of the Schaum Family.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Jacob Eichholtz (American, 1776–1842)
- Date
- 1808–10
- Medium
- Oil on yellow poplar panel
- Dimensions
- 22.9 × 17.8 cm (9 × 7 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- painting
- Place
- Lancaster
- Department
- Arts of the Americas
- Credit line
- Gift of the Estate of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch
- Accession no.
- 1980.745
More by Jacob Eichholtz in museum collections
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Open-access museum record · AT-00001141
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