The identities of the women in these portraits have not yet been confirmed. However, the paintings are known or believed to have been done in the United States based on factors including their style, inscribed dates, and the appearance of the sitters when images are available. Johnson painted the vast majority of his oil portraits after he returned to the United States from Europe in 1855. —AM
MacGibeny, 2022: This painting was offered at auction as Portrait of Susan Linn Sage. It has been retitled Unidentified Woman, possibly of the Sage Family, based on the sitter's dissimilarity to a historical photograph and a Johnson portrait of Susan Elizabeth Linn Sage, and in consideration of its Sage family provenance.
Susan Elizabeth Linn Sage (1819–1885). Wife of Henry Williams Sage, first elected chairman of the Cornell University Board of Trustees and a major benefactor.
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