Henry M. Baxley

Artist: Nicholas Pavloff; Oil on canvas (1954)

Henry Minifie Baxley was born in Baltimore on January 26, 1868; son of Mr. J. Brown Baxley. He was educated at Oxford School, Baltimore; Ph.G., Maryland College of Pharmacy, 1888; M.D., Baltimore Medical College, 1892; Professor of Materia Medica and Therapeutics. Maryland Medical College; Attending Physician. Baltimore General Dispensary. 1129 West North Avenue, Baltimore. 

Henry Minifie Baxley served an apprenticeship in his father's drug store, graduated in pharmacy (1888) and medicine (1892); practiced medicine in Baltimore for more than fifty years. (Henry was the son of Jackson Brown Baxley and Gertrude Hyne (Minifie) Baxley, and married Maude Eugenia Tonge in 1893.)

Unfortunately, little information is available on Nicholas Pavloff. Newspaper articles indicate he was a Russian portrait painter based primarily in Baltimore. In the 1940s, Pavloff maintained a studio on East Chase Street and lived at the Baltimore Country Club, where he often exhibited and entertained for his society friends, many of whom he also counted among his sitters. Outside of Maryland society, he also exhibited in New York, Philadelphia, and Washington, D.C.