Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné
Patricia Hills, PhD, Founder and Director | Abigael MacGibeny, Project Manager and Co-Author
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James Abercrombie Burden, c.1875 (Hills no. 45.1.4). Overall
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Photo: Patricia Hills
James Abercrombie Burden, c.1875 (Hills no. 45.1.4). Verso
Verso
Photo: Patricia Hills
45.1 U.S. Later Portrait Drawings, Men

When Johnson returned from Europe late in 1855 and moved in with his family in Washington, D.C., he began receiving portrait commissions. Like those done earlier, Johnson generally used charcoal (named in some records as black chalk) with touches of white and created a strong chiaroscuro for his sitters. Gradually he moved away from the strong chiaroscuro style he had been using, and his later portraits tend to be sketchier (as was the taste in art at the time) but no less professional. He used pastel to bring in color in some of these portraits. —PH

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Hills no. 45.1.4
Baur no. 345
James Abercrombie Burden
Princeton University Art Museum title: Portrait of Samuel Worcester Rowse
Alternate titles: Head of a Man; S. B. Rouss [incorrect]; Study for the James Abercrombie Burden Family
c.1875
Charcoal and graphite on tan wove paper
8 1/2 x 6 3/8 in. (21.6 x 16.2 cm)
Verso: lower right, both in graphite, in Albert Rosenthal's hand: Eastman Johnson fect./Rosenthal Col.; lower left: S. B. Rouss
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Record last updated March 22, 2022. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Hills, Patricia, and Abigael MacGibeny. "James Abercrombie Burden, c.1875 (Hills no. 45.1.4)." In Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné. www.eastmanjohnson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=1045 (accessed on October 12, 2024).