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

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31.3 U.S. Portraits, Women

Johnson’s paintings of women are often his best portraits, exhibiting a range of techniques and emphasizing their intelligent faces even when enwrapped in sumptuous fabrics, such as we see in Edwina Booth. —PH

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Hills no. 31.3.59
Baur no. 276
Elizabeth Adelaide Phelps Warren
Alternate titles: Mrs. Joseph Mabbett Warren; Mrs. Joseph Mabbett Warren (Elizabeth Adelaide Phelps)
c.1874
Oil on board
9 x 7 in. (22.9 x 17.8 cm)
Initialed lower left: E.J.
Description / Remarks

Frick Art Reference Library Photoarchive files, catalog no. b11970261, accessed March 16, 2021: "Brown eyes and hair. Black and white dress. Brown background."

Provenance
Mrs. Thomas Vail, Troy, New York, granddaughter of the sitter, by 1936
Present whereabouts unknown
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. 72, no. 276, as Mrs. Joseph Mabbett Warren.
Sitter Biography
Sitter: Warren, Elizabeth Adelaide Phelps (Mrs. Joseph Mabbett Warren)
Biography:

Elizabeth Adelaide Phelps Warren (1815–1891). Daughter of Walter Phelps (1789–1874) and Julia Steele Black (1793–1877). Wife of Joseph Mabbett Warren (m. 1835); mother of three children [Frick Art Reference Library].

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Warren, Elizabeth Adelaide Phelps (Mrs. Joseph Mabbett Warren)
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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. "Elizabeth Adelaide Phelps Warren, c.1874 (Hills no. 31.3.59)." Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné. www.eastmanjohnson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=1246 (accessed on May 4, 2024).