:quality(70)/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/tronc/4UZPRZQPUJHF3CH3ZYINM3IZH4.jpg "At Hammond-Harwood House, a debunked Annapolis painting prodigy is art history’s gain")
At Hammond-Harwood House, a debunked Annapolis painting prodigy is art history’s gain
The special delivery arrived in 1805, addressed to “Miss Mary Steele, Mrs. Keets School, Annapolis.” Probably wrapped in fabric, then paper and sealed with wax, the landscape painting was the perfect present for a 16-year-old girl attending a school for young ladies. As she practiced her needlepoint or elocution Miss Steele could glance up at…