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).
Hills, 2022: Although John I. H. Baur owned and annotated a copy of the catalogue of Johnson's 1907 Estate Sale, he did not include this work in his own 1940 catalogue listing; he must have obtained it after publication.
Hills, 1970: Brick red sweater—rather flat. Holds violin like a banjo. Eyes left. Full red lips; Afro-style hair.
Nieuwe Rotterdamsche Courant, Review of Exhibition of Living Masters in Rotterdam, June 15, 1852: "The Violin Player by Mr. E. Johnson (No. 152) doesn’t please us at all as far as color and tone concern; the two Cardplayers on the other hand is a piece that, for the careful treatment of the whole, and for the naturally true expression, may be called an excellent piece. Those two heads are drawn out of real life" [translated by Erik Schoonhoven].
"Signed at the lower right, E. J.
Height, 38 inches; width, 27 inches."
[Annotation: “80.00”]
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