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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. 45.1.19
Baur no. 366
John Stewart Kennedy
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston title: Portrait of Gentleman with Sideburns
Alternate titles: Gentleman with Sideburns; Portrait of a Gentleman with Side Whiskers; Portrait of a Gentleman with Sideburns; Portrait of a Man
1887
Charcoal and white chalk on paper laid down on canvas
17 7/8 x 12 in. (45.4 x 30.5 cm)
Initialed and dated lower left in white chalk: E.J./1887
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Exhibitions
M. Knoedler & Co, New York, Paintings and Drawings by Eastman Johnson, January 7–26, 1946. (Exhibition catalogue: M. Knoedler & Co. 1946), no. 23, as
Gentleman with Sideburns. Traveled to: The California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, March 1946 (California Palace 1946).
References
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. 77, no. 366, as
Portrait of a Man.
Paintings and Drawings by Eastman Johnson. New York:
M. Knoedler & Co.,
1946.
Exhibition catalogue (1946 M. Knoedler & Co.), n.p., no. 23, as
Gentleman with Sideburns.
M. & M. Karolik Collection of American Water Colors & Drawings, 1800–1875. Vol. 1. Boston:
Museum of Fine Arts,
1962.
Exhibition catalogue, p. 206, no. 412, as
Portrait of a Gentleman with Sideburns.
Hills Examination / Opinion
Examination date(s): March 7, 2018
Sitter Biography
Sitter: Kennedy, John Stewart
Biography: John Stewart Kennedy (1830–1909). Member of the Union League Club from 1871 until his death.
White, Terry James. The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography. Ann Arbor, MI: University Microfilms, 1967–.
Record last updated March 15, 2022. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Hills, Patricia, and Abigael MacGibeny. "John Stewart Kennedy, 1887 (Hills no. 45.1.19)." Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné. www.eastmanjohnson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=1068 (accessed on April 19, 2024).
