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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
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
Markings
Verso: upper center in graphite: WCA 905; lower right, in circle: 15; lower left: 52; lower left: #20
In ink: 10016AD
In ink: 10016AD
Labels
Verso of frame, paper label: M. Knoedler & Co.
Provenance
Likely Eastman Johnson estate/Mrs. Eastman Johnson, New York, 1906 (by bequest)
Albert Rosenthal, New Hope, Pennsylvania, until 1939 (likely by purchase from Mrs. Johnson in 1915)
Estate of Albert Rosenthal, with Albert Duveen, New York, by 1940
Albert Duveen, New York, and M. Knoedler & Co., New York, February 8, 1946
M. Knoedler & Co., New York, June 27, 1956–March 14, 1978 (by purchase of Albert Duveen's 1/2 share)
Mr. and Mrs. Stuart P. Feld, New York, by 1978
Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, New Jersey, 1978 (by gift)
Exhibitions
1946 M. Knoedler & Co.
M. Knoedler & Co, New York, Paintings and Drawings by Eastman Johnson, January 7–26, 1946. (Exhibition catalogue: M. Knoedler & Co. 1946), no. 28, as S. B. Rouss [incorrect]. Traveled to: The California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, March 1946 (California Palace 1946).References
Baur 1940
Baur, John I. H. An American Genre Painter: Eastman Johnson, 1824–1906. Brooklyn, NY: Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, 1940. Exhibition catalogue (1939 Brooklyn Museum), p. 76, no. 345, as S. B. Rouss [incorrect].M. Knoedler & Co. 1946
Paintings and Drawings by Eastman Johnson. New York: M. Knoedler & Co., 1946. Exhibition catalogue (1946 M. Knoedler & Co.), n.p., no. 28, as S. B. Rouss [incorrect].Princeton University 1979
Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 38, no. 1 (1979), p. 22, listed as a recent acquisition.Hills Examination / Opinion
Examination date(s): March 1971; May 29, 2019
Examination notes: 1971: Pale charcoal, very gray. Sharp lines outline collar, ear, hair.
2019: Charcoal and pencil. Outline around head. Verso: “S. W. Rowse/ Rosenwald Coll.”
2019: Charcoal and pencil. Outline around head. Verso: “S. W. Rowse/ Rosenwald Coll.”
Sitter Biography
Sitter: Burden, James Abercrombie
Biography:
James Abercrombie Burden (1833–?). Ironmaster and inventor. Married to Mary Margaret Proudfit Irvin Burden; father of James Abercrombie, Jr., Richard Irvin, Williams Proudfit, and Arthur Scott.
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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)." Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné. www.eastmanjohnson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=1045 (accessed on May 7, 2024).