Portrait of Sarah Smith Logan Clarke, ca. 1805-10, Easton, Maryland

The Program of the 2013 Philadelphia Antique Show on p. 76 pictures in an advertisement an excellent portrait of Sarah Smith Logan Clarke, of Easton, Maryland, painted about 1805-10 by James Peale in Philadelphia. She is a beautiful young lady in this portrait.

Further, at the date of my writing this message, the portrait also appears on the advertiser, Schwarz Gallery's, website online at:

www.schwarzgallery.com/index.php?page=painting&modifier=detail&painting=1170

where this further information is given about Mrs. Clarke: "[Sarah Smith Logan] lived in Easton, Maryland,near Chestertown.... She was the daughter of Samuel Logan, a prosperousmerchant who donated land upon which the Talbot County Library was erected. Sarah Logan married William Bennett Clarke, a prominent local lawyer and merchant."

However, this portrait may be taken offline soon. In the event it is taken offline, I have scanned it from the Philadelphia Antique Show program & will be happy to send a copy freely by email to Logan or Clarke family researchers. Someone in the families ought to have it, which is why I’m keeping a copy of it and posting about it. It is too good to be missed by the Logan or Clarke families. It would be a very great shame and injustice were it to be missed by their descendants.

My email address can be found by clicking on my underlined name above. Please note that there is a period between both of my names and between the two words in the second half of my address.

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If it were a portrait of a 19th century Pease gentlelady in my family line, I’d certainly hope someone would do the same for me. Call it a simple, but appropriate, genealogy good deed.