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

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31.5 U.S. Portraits, Children and Adolescents

Johnson’s portraits of children and adolescents were often part of a larger commission to paint whole families. In some instances, the children had died and their parents wished to have a reminder of their loved ones. —PH

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Hills no. 31.5.13
Henry H. Porter, Jr.
Alternate titles: possibly A Portrait; H. H. Porter, Jr.
1880
Oil
[dimensions unknown]
Present whereabouts unknown
Description / Remarks

MacGibeny, 2021: Henry H. Porter, Jr., son of Henry H. Porter, Chicago railroad pioneer and owner and steel company founder, was born in 1876 and would have been approximately four years old in this portrait.

Provenance
Henry H. Porter, Chicago, father of the sitter, by 1895 (possibly by 1881)
Present whereabouts unknown
Exhibitions
1881 NAD
National Academy of Design, New York, 1881. (NAD 1881), no. 401, [possibly, as A Portrait, owner H. H. Porter].
1895 Art Institute of Chicago
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Loan Exhibition of Portraits of Men, Women, and Children, January 2–15, 1895, no. 287, as H. H. Porter, Jr. owner H. H. Porter, Chicago.
References
NAD 1881
New York: National Academy of Design, 1881. Exhibition catalogue (1881 NAD), no. 401 [possibly, as A Portrait].
Douglass 1999
Douglass, Julie M. "Lifetime Exhibition History." In Eastman Johnson: Painting America, by Teresa A. Carbone and Patricia Hills. Brooklyn, NY: Brooklyn Museum of Art, in association with Rizzoli International Publications, 1999. Exhibition catalogue, p. 265, as H. H. Porter, Jr. 1880, owner H. H. Porter, Chicago.
Sitter Biography
Sitter: Porter, Henry H., Jr.
Biography:

Henry H. Porter, Jr. (January 23, 1876–?). Son of Henry H. Porter, Chicago railroad pioneer and owner; brother of George F. Porter. Henry, Jr. would have been approximately four years old in Johnson’s portrait.

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Record last updated March 22, 2022. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Hills, Patricia, and Abigael MacGibeny. "Henry H. Porter, Jr., 1880 (Hills no. 31.5.13)." Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné. www.eastmanjohnson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=1558 (accessed on May 4, 2024).