Four Chippendale Carved Mahogany Side Chairs

By descent from Francis Scott Key (1779-1843). The chairs' paper labels show this set's descent. Jane Frances Hunt Pendleton (Mrs. Arthur Tilghman Brice, 1860-1950) was a daughter of Alice Key (Mrs. George Hunt Pendleton, 1824-1886), the second youngest of the eleven children of Francis Scott Key and his wife, Mary Tayloe Lloyd. At least two of the chairs passed to Jane F. Brice's daughter, Julie (Mrs. Herman B. Chubb, 1896-1953), before becoming the property of Mrs. Chubb's sister, Alice K.P. Brice (Mrs. John F. Joline, 1893-ca.1975). Two other chairs were owned by their brother, Colonel Arthur Tilghman Brice, Jr. (1892-ca.1973). The remaining two chairs (1973.02.1-2) belonged to Mrs. Chubb's daughters, Julia Frances and Sarah Jane (Mrs. Stephen Gummersall and Mrs. Raymond Cox, respectively). It is likely, then, that the first owners of the chairs were Francis Scott Key's parents, John Ross Key (1734-1821) and Ann Phoebe Charlton (1756-1830) of Frederick County, Maryland, who married in 1775. To the Fine Arts Committee through purchase