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

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Detail of photograph in French, "An American Portrait Painter of Three Historical Epochs," The World's Work, 1906
Portrait of a Woman, c.1856–99 (Hills no. 31.4.4).
"A Glimpse of Mr. Johnson's Studio," reproduced in Edgar French, "An American Portrait Painter of Three Historical Epochs," The World's Work, 1906
31.4 U.S. Portraits, Women, Unidentified

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

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Hills no. 31.4.4
Portrait of a Woman
c.1856–99
Oil
[dimensions unknown]
Description / Remarks

MacGibeny, 2021: This portrait of a woman is seen hanging on the wall in the photograph captioned "A Glimpse of Mr. Johnson's Studio," in Edgar French, "An American Portrait Painter of Three Historical Epochs," The World's Work, 1906.

Provenance
Present whereabouts unknown
References
French 1906
French, Edgar. "An American Portrait Painter of Three Historical Epochs." World's Work 13, no. 2 (December 1906), p. 8317, illus. appears in photograph captioned "A Glimpse of Mr. Johnson's Studio".
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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. "Portrait of a Woman, c.1856–99 (Hills no. 31.4.4)." Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné. www.eastmanjohnson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=1681 (accessed on April 28, 2024).