J. Hall Pleasants

1873 – 1957

• Maryland silversmiths, 1715-1830
• The second hospital in the colonies
• An early Baltimore Negro portrait painter, Joshua Johnston
• Four late eighteenth century Anglo-American landscape painters
• Joshua Johnston, the first American Negro portrait painter
• Justus Engelhardt Kühn, an early eighteenth century Maryland portrait painter
• Saint Memin water color miniatures
• The Curzon family of New York and Baltimore and their English descent