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Oil on canvas portrait painting of Catherine Rosalba Cave Diffenderffer (1799-1874), 1833, by Jacob Eichholtz (1776-1842). Catherine was born in Virginia and married John Diffenderfer (1775-1835)in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1823. The couple had five children. She is buried in Baltimore Cemetery. Diffenderffer wears the popular gigot or leg-of-mutton style sleeve of the 1830s.

Catherine Rosalba Cave Diffenderffer

Description

Oil on canvas portrait painting of Catherine Rosalba Cave Diffenderffer (1799-1874), 1833, by Jacob Eichholtz (1776-1842). Catherine was born in Virginia and married John Diffenderfer (1775-1835)in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1823. The couple had five children. She is buried in Baltimore Cemetery. Diffenderffer wears the popular gigot or leg-of-mutton style sleeve of the 1830s.

Creator

Date

1833

Materials

Oil on canvas

Object ID

1988.42.2

Resource ID

7936

Credit Line

Bequest of Mrs. Grace D. Warfield in memory of Charles M. Diffenderffer

Digital Publisher

Digital resource provided by the Maryland Center for History and Culture

Rights

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