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Paintings by Johnson with a Later Additional Hand are not collaborations, but tend to be heavily restored paintings. They have been overpainted since their original creation to such an extent that another hand is visible in the work. The heaviest restorations are seen in three portraits currently or formerly owned by The Brook, New York, which are believed to have been left unfinished at the time of Johnson’s death and subsequently completed by painter, printmaker, and art restorer Charles X. Harris (1854–1936).
MacGibeny, 2021: According to The Brook Collection by Richard Saunders, 2005, this painting is by Johnson and C. X. Harris. Charles X. Harris (1854–1936) was a painter, printmaker, and art restorer. According to Saunders, portraits with that attribution apparently were left unfinished at the time of Johnson’s death and completed by Harris.
William Maxwell Evarts (1818–1901). Prominent lawyer and orator who also served as Attorney General of the United States under President Andrew Johnson, 1868–1869; U.S. Secretary of State, 1877–1881; U.S. Senator to New York, 1885–1891 [Rains Galleries auction catalogue, 1936].
White, Terry James. The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography. Ann Arbor, MI: University Microfilms, 1967–.
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