Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné
Patricia Hills, PhD, Founder and Director | Abigael MacGibeny, MA, Project Manager
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Patricia Hills, taken of an image in the Brooklyn Museum Archives
44.1 Euro Portrait Drawings, Men

After Johnson arrived in Düsseldorf in late 1849 his earliest portrait drawings were graphite sketches of his instructors and artist friends. He continued to make drawings when he moved to The Hague in 1851. As he began to receive commissions, Johnson used charcoal and worked much in the style of the late 1840s drawings he had done in the United States. It is likely that he may have done many more sketches, but those that have been located, of his friends and teachers, were ones he selected to bring back to the U.S.; the commissioned portrait drawings of Europeans generally stayed in Europe. —PH

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Hills no. 44.1.14
Baur no. 337
Heinrich Karl Anton Mücke
Alternate titles: Prof. Mucke; Professor Mucke
c.1849–51
Pencil on white paper
8 3/4 x 11 1/8 in. (22.2 x 28.3 cm)
Inscribed lower center: Prof. Mucke; scribbled on lower right edge: Johnson [several times], Boston, several other words [illegible]
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Record last updated March 24, 2022. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Hills, Patricia, and Abigael MacGibeny. "Heinrich Karl Anton Mücke, c.1849–51 (Hills no. 44.1.14)." Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné. www.eastmanjohnson.org/catalogue/entry.php?SystemID=1013 (accessed on March 28, 2024).