Lot 486: Charles Balthazar Julien Fevert de Saint-Memin (1770-1852), circa 1804

Portrait of Charles Carroll
Reverse inscribed in graphite Charles Carroll of Carrollton by St. Memin
Pen and ink on paper
2 1/8 x 2 1/8 inches (sight)

Charles Carroll (1737-1832)
Catherine Carroll Harper (1767-1861), daughter
Miss Emily Harper, daughter
Dr. Clapham Pennington, son
Maryland Historical Society, by gift, 1926

Property from the Estate of Robert G. Stewart

Charles Carroll of Carrollton (1737-1832) was born in Annapolis, Maryland. He attended college in Paris and returned to Maryland and married Elizabeth Brook in 1757; after her death in 1761, he married Mary Darnall in 1768. He was appointed to Congress in 1776 and was the only Roman Catholic to sign the Declaration of Independence, eventually outliving all other signers before his death in 1832.