Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1906-12-04
TO UNVEIL THE PORTRAITS.
Imposing Ceremonies In The Senate
Chamber Dec. ~.
PAINTINGS SENT TO THE STATE
HOUSE TODAY.
A Portrait Of A Former Governor
of Maryland To Be Hung
In State Capitol.

In State Capitol.
II has been definitely decided that
the ceremony attendant upon the un-
yelling of the portraits of Hon. Mat
thew Tilghman and Governor Robert
Bowie will take pace in the old Sem
ate Chamber at the State House on
Monday, Decemberr IL. The hour has
not been determined upon, but it will
probably take place in the evening.
Today the portraits were sent TO
the Executive Department by the
artist who painted them, Miss Kath-
arine Walton. The portraits are the
property of the State of Maryland and
money TO paint them was appropriat-
ed by an Act of the last Legislature
and Miss Walton was commissioned
to do the work. The ceremony of un-
yelling them on December II will be
under the auspices of the Peggy Stew
art Tea Party Chapter, ID. A. r., and
addresses will be made by Governor
Warfield. Colonel Oswald Tilghman,
who will speak in eulogy of his ances-
tor, Hon. Mathew Tilghman, and Mrs.
Robert Bowie, granddaughter of Gov
ernor Robert Bowie, who Will eulo-
gize her ancestor.
The date, December II, has been
fixed for the ceremonies, as ii is
an historic one. on this day General
George Washington came TO Annapo-
lis preparatory to resigning his COM
mission as commanuer-in-chi of the
American Army. In connection with
the unveiling of the portraits of these
two distinguished men will be the un-
yelling of smaller painting of the
Peggy Stewart House, painted by Miss
Katharine Walton and framed in wood
of the brig Peggy Stewart, burned off
Wind Mill Point, October 10, 177i, by
the owner, Anthony Stewart, at the
instigation of infuriated citizens be-
cause il was laden with cargo of
hated taxed tea.
The portraits, as sent to the State
Department today, are credit TO the
artist, Miss Katherine Walton, daugh-
ter of DR.. j. Roland Walton, of this
city, and great granddaughter of Gov
ernor Joseph Kent, who was Governor
Of Maryland in 1925. The paintings
are handsome copies of the original
and are strong and spirited works of
art. The coloring is beautiful and the
painting soft and clear, though
strong and mellow in the lights and
shadows, and the protraits are strik-
ingly clean and artistic. Miss Walton
has idealized her copies from the
originals, somewhat, but this makes
them all the more striking.
The protrait of Hon. Matthew Thigh
man, to whom the term The Patriarch
of the Colony of Maryland is APP
piled, is painted from the original,
which belongs to Mrs. Marye, of
Philadelphia, the sister-in-law of Colo
mel Tilghman, Secretary of State.
A copy of the original hangs in Inde-
pendence Hall, Philadelphia. The
portrait by Miss Walton represents
a gentleman of the colonial period,
and is that Of a man of dignity who
bears the mark of being distinguish
ed, and has the striking face charac-
teristic of man of affairs, which
Hon. Matthew Tilghman really was.
He was president of the Assembly of
Freemen from 1774 to 1915, and pre- s.
ident of the Continental Convention in
1774-'76. He was also chairman of
the Maryland Delegation of the Conti
mental Congress in sl774'76. The por-
trait is handsomely set in frame of
colonial design in gold leaf the setting
being in keeping with the type of the
painting and the period it represents.
The portrait of Governor Robert
Bowie is from the original by st.
Memin. French artist, who was ex-
lied to this country and who painted
in America from 1S04-'07 The original
is owned by Mrs. Worthington Bowie,
of Washington. Governor Robert Bowie
was Governor of Maryland from 1903
'O6. And in 1S11-12 St. Memin, from
whose original the painting for the
State is copy, was crayon portrait
painter. All of his work was on
pink paper, somewhat touched up with
water colors. While he was in this
country st. Memin painted 130 por-
traits. He received on an average of
S33 per portrait and also gave for this
meagre sum dozen small crayons
of the picture. His work is strong
and spirited and is. very much adj
mired. A number of families in An
napolis and Baltimore have pictures
of their ancestors done by st. Memin.
Miss Walton has also painted for
herself the portrait of her great grand
father. Governor Joseph Kent, the orig
inal of which was sometime ago pre-
sented the State by his granddaughter,
Miss Elizabeth Kent. The three paint
ings are distinctly characteristic of the
periods they represent, the style of
dress showing the period from 1774
to 1925. This is peculiarly marked in
the stocks worn by the colonial gentle
men of those days. The work Of the
artist is credit to herself and TO the
state for whom she has executed the
work and Annapolis is proud of so