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26.6 Nantucket Portraits and Types
Like many artists in the nineteenth century, Johnson often did paintings of “types” that are actually identifiable portraits. For example, the painting John F. Sylvia shows a Nantucket miller in his barn looking up from his account books to look out the window. Called at one time The Falling Market, the subject suggests a man perhaps assessing his position in the economy in the early years of the 1870s when a recession gripped the nation. —PH
Hills no. 26.6.14
Charles C. Myrick
Alternate titles: Nantucket Sea Captain; Nantucket Sea Captain (Portrait of Captain Myrick); The Old Mantle [sic]—Capt. Myrick
1873
Locale: Nantucket, Massachusetts
Oil on canvas
19 3/4 x 12 1/2 in. (50.2 x 31.8 cm)
Signed and dated lower left: E. Johnson/1873
Markings
Labels on verso: Collection/Mr. and Mrs. Wm. J. Poplack; "Cincinnati Art Museum/American Paintings on the Market/February 1977" Lent by Hirschl & Adler 41.1966; 4688
Provenance
Victor D. Spark, New York, until 1948 (as The Old Mantle, [sic]—Capt. Myrick)
Wildenstein and Company, New York, 1948–1955
Mr. and Mrs. William J. Poplack, Detroit, 1955–1965
Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York, 1965-1966
Mrs. Walter Beinicke, Jr., New York and Nantucket, by 1972
Frank F. Sylvia, Nantucket, Massachusetts, until 1976
Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York, 1976-1978
Ken Wagnon, 1978 (by purchase)
Present whereabouts unknown
Exhibitions
1966 Cincinnati Art Museum
Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, American Paintings on the Market, February 1966, Lent by Hirschl & Adler.1972 Whitney Museum
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Eastman Johnson: Retrospective Exhibition, March 28–May 14, 1972. (Exhibition catalogue: Hills 1972a), no. 76, b/w illus., p. 106, as Nantucket Sea Captain. Traveled to: The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, June 7–July 22, 1972; Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, August 15–September 30, 1972; Milwaukee Art Center, Milwaukee, October 20–December 3, 1972.1978 Hirschl & Adler
Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York, American Genre Painting in the Victorian Era: Winslow Homer, Eastman Johnson, and their Contemporaries, April 8–May 6, 1978. (Exhibition catalogue: Hirschl & Adler Galleries 1978), no. 51, p. 47, as Nantucket Sea Captain (Portrait of Captain Myrick).References
Hills 1972a
Hills, Patricia. Eastman Johnson: Retrospective Exhibition. New York: Clarkson N. Potter, 1972. Exhibition catalogue (1972 Whitney Museum), p. 106, no. 76, illus., as Nantucket Sea Captain.Hirschl & Adler Galleries 1978
American Genre Painting in the Victorian Era: Winslow Homer, Eastman Johnson, and their Contemporaries. New York: Hirschl & Adler Galleries, 1978. Exhibition catalogue (1978 Hirschl & Adler), p. 47, no. 51, illus., as Nantucket Sea Captain (Portrait of Captain Myrick).Simons 2013
Simons, Benjamin. "Eastman Johnson and His Contemporaries on Nantucket." AFAnews.com [Antiques & Fine Art Magazine], January 7, 2013.Hills Examination / Opinion
Examination date(s): 1970-07
Sitter Biography
Sitter: Myrick, Charles C.
Biography:
Charles C. Myrick (1797–1883). Captain of the Nantucket coastal trading ship Abel Hoyt, 1854.
Myrick, Charles
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Record last updated August 1, 2021. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Hills, Patricia, and Abigael MacGibeny. "Charles C. Myrick, 1873 (Hills no. 26.6.14)." Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné. www.eastmanjohnson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=388 (accessed on May 3, 2024).