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Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné
Patricia Hills, PhD, Founder and Director | Abigael MacGibeny, MA, Project Manager

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31.1 U.S. Portraits, Men

When Johnson returned to the United States, he not only painted genre paintings but he also continued to paint portraits, which gave him a steady income. After 1880 Johnson turned to portraiture almost exclusively. During the 1880s and 1890s he painted businessmen, lawyers, university presidents, and three U.S. presidents from life. At times he also painted their wives and children.

He was also commissioned to paint posthumous portraits, often from photographs. These portraits by and large do not have the sparkle and active brushwork of those done from life. It seems that the demand for portraits of business and civic leaders (and members of exclusive men’s clubs) was so high that portrait painters would often make copies of each other’s paintings to satisfy the market for such images. In many instances, it has been difficult to render opinions for such paintings. —PH

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Hills no. 31.1.76
Daniel Burton Fayerweather
Bowdoin College Museum of Art title: Portrait of Daniel B. Fayerweather
1898
Oil on canvas
40 1/16 x 33 in. (101.8 x 83.8 cm)
Signed and dated lower right in black: E. Johnson/1898
Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine, Commissioned by Bowdoin College; Transferred to Museum Collection, 1898 (1898.22)
Provenance
Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine, 1898 (by commission)
References
Bowdoin College 1897
Report of the President of Bowdoin College. Brunswick, ME: Bowdoin College, 1897–1898, p. 19.
Brunswick Telegraph 1898
"New Things at the Art Building." The Brunswick Telegraph, June 22, 1898, pp. 2–3.
Bowdoin Orient 1910
"Art Building Notes." The Bowdoin Orient, October 7, 1910, pp. 99–100.
Burke 1981
Burke, Margaret R. Handbook of the Collections. Brunswick, ME: Bowdoin College Museum of Art, 1981, p. 124.
Sitter Biography
Sitter: Fayerweather, Daniel Burton
Biography:

Daniel Burton Fayerweather (1822–1890).

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Record last updated July 29, 2021. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Hills, Patricia, and Abigael MacGibeny. "Daniel Burton Fayerweather, 1898 (Hills no. 31.1.76)." Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné. www.eastmanjohnson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=1113 (accessed on May 2, 2024).