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John Eager Howard

Description

Oil on canvas portrait painting of "John Eager Howard," 1846, by Michael Laty after Charles Willson Peale. Howard (1752-1827) rose to the rank of colonel in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War. He served as the 5th Governor of Maryland (1788-1791) and was a United States Senator from Maryland (1796-1803). Howard County as well as Howard and Eager Streets in Baltimore are named after him. After Howard was wounded at the Battle of Eutaw Springs (1781) he left military service and returned to law in Baltimore County. In 1787, he sat in uniform wearing his Society of the Cincinnati badge for a portrait by Charles Willson Peale (1741-1827). In 1846, Michael Laty (1828-1848) painted a second version of the Peale portrait for Howard's children. James Howard (1797-1870) and Charles Howard (1802-1869), two of the colonel's sons, donated the painting to the Maryland Center for History and Culture in 1846.

Date

1846

Contributor(s) Notes

Laty portrait (1846) after Peale portrait (1787).

Materials

Oil on canvas

Object ID

1846.1.1

Resource ID

5015

Credit Line

Gift of James and Charles Howard

Digital Publisher

Digital resource provided by the Maryland Center for History and Culture

Rights

This digital image is made available here for private study, scholarship, and research. Commercial and other uses are prohibited without the permission of the Maryland Center for History and Culture. For more information, visit the MCHC’s Reproductions and Permissions web page.