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Painting (Portrait)
Sarah Covington Lloyd Hollyday
1704-1714
Description
This portrait of Sarah Covington Lloyd Hollyday (1684–1755) was likely painted in England or Scotland c. 1704. With its light palette and floral embellishments, the work reflects early 18th-century British portraiture, with inflections of French and Venetian portrait styles popularized through the Grand Tour, a fashionable European journey undertaken by English elites. Sarah, the daughter of Quaker merchant Nehemiah Covington, married Maryland planter Edward Lloyd II (1671-1719). Their union expanded the Lloyd family’s trade network in the West Indies, which brought rum, sugar, and French brandy to their Maryland stores as well as enslaved Barbadian labor to their plantation.
Category
Paintings
Place of Origin
England or Scotland; United Kingdom; Europe
Museum Object Number
2025.0005.002 A
Credit Line/Donor
Gift of an Anonymous Donor
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Object Number
2025.0005.002 A
Object Name
Painting (Portrait)
Title
Sarah Covington Lloyd Hollyday
Category
Paintings
Place of Origin
England or Scotland; United Kingdom; Europe
Date
1704-1714
Dimensions (inches)
26.375 (H) x 22 (W) x 20.625 (Image H) x 16 (Image W)
Dimensions (centimeters)
66.993 (H) x 55.88 (W) x 52.388 (Image H) x 40.64 (Image W)
Measurement Notes
Overall dimensions are frame. Image dimensions are canvas sight size.