Rembrandt Peale; Portrait of Maria Wheelock Allen; 1825; oil on canvas; 26 7/16 in. x 22 in. (67.15 cm x 55.88 cm); Born in 1788; Marie Allen was the daughter of the Dartmouth College president John Wheelock and Marie Suhm. In this portrait by Rembrandt Peale; she is depicted in her prime; in a high-waisted dress with a sheer cap; an ornament of a married lady. Since her childhood in New Hampshire; Allen's life was inextricably linked with that of Phebe Ann Jacobs (1785-1850); a slave on her grandfather's New Jersey plantation; whom she received as a companion. Jacobs accompanied Marie and her husband William Allen to Pittsfield; Massachusetts; in 1813; where she is recorded as a freed person. In 1819 the Allens came to Brunswick when William Allen became the Bowdoin College president. Marie Allen died in 1828 and is buried on Pine Grove Cemetery. Jacobs; who lived close to the Bowdoin campus and worshipped as a member of the First Parish Church; rests just a few feet away.