Jacobs, Mary Frick, 1848-1936

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role

Collector

dates

1848-1936

city

Baltimore

state

MD

other cities

Newport, RI;

sex

F

historical notes

Art collector and widow of Robert Garrett, banker and president of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad.
Her second husband was Dr. Henry Barton Jacobs (1852-1939).

In 1934 Mrs. Jacobs offered her art collection to the BMA under several conditions, one of which was that Pope design the wing in which it would hang, and the board agreed.

Jacob's collection consisted of paintings, tapestries, miniatures, porcelains, jades and other art objects. The collection included work by Rembrandt, Frans Hals, Perugino, van Rujsdeal, Romney, Greuze, Murillo, Charles Wilson Peale and Thomas Scully.

decades
of activity

1870-1880
1880-1890
1890-1900
1900-1910
1910-1920
1920-1930
1930-1940

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03/22/2024 12:09:30

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Archives/Repository	Collection Title	Collection Details
Maryland Historical Society, Library Special Collections Reading Room	Garrett Papers, 1816-1950 (MS 979)	see details...
Baltimore Museum of Art The E. Kirkbride Miller Art Research Library	Dr. Henry Barton and Mary Frick Jacobs papers, 1885-1966 [bulk 1900-1940]	see details...