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Photo: Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, Massachusetts
⊠45.5 U.S. Later Portrait Drawings, Children and Adolescents
When Johnson returned from Europe late in 1855 and moved in with his family in Washington, D.C., he began receiving portrait commissions. Like the commissioned drawings 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. In his later professional years as a painter of oil few portraits of children are recorded. His art commanded high prices; perhaps families were then reluctant to include their children in sittings for portrait drawings. —PH
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Hills no. 45.5.9
David H. Taylor
Smith College Museum of Art title: Portrait of David H. Taylor at Age Six
c.1880
Charcoal and chalk on paper mounted on canvas
23 1/2 x 17 3/4 in. (59.7 x 45.1 cm) (sheet)
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Exhibitions
Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, Massachusetts, Recent Accessions, April 13–June 30, 1989.
Sitter Biography
Sitter: Taylor, David H.
Biography: David H. Taylor (1873–1961). New York lawyer with the firm Taylor, Wadsworth, and Burr in New York. Graduate of Columbia University and Columbia Law School. At the time of his death, he was the oldest member of the Union Club in New York. Johnson painted a portrait of him when he was a child.
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Record last updated March 23, 2022. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Hills, Patricia, and Abigael MacGibeny. "David H. Taylor, c.1880 (Hills no. 45.5.9)." Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné. www.eastmanjohnson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=1201 (accessed on April 23, 2024).