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Photo: Courtesy of the Nantucket Historical Association
Inscription - unframed
Photo: Courtesy of the Nantucket Historical Association
Inscription - unframed
Photo: Courtesy of the Nantucket Historical Association
Verso labels
Photo: Courtesy of the Nantucket Historical Association
Verso label
Photo: Courtesy of the Nantucket Historical Association
Verso plaque
Photo: Courtesy of the Nantucket Historical Association
⊠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
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Hills no. 26.6.10
Nathan H. Manter
Nantucket Historical Association title: Captain Nathan H. Manter
Alternate titles: possibly Captain Manter, an Old Whaler; New England Pedler
1873, November 7
Oil on board
12 1/4 x 8 5/8 in. (31.1 x 21.9 cm)
Signed and dated lower right: E. Johnson/Nov. 7 '73
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Labels
Verso: variety of late-twentieth-century adhesive labels from various exhibitions; small brass plaque attached to frame: Eastman Johnson / New England Pedler
Provenance
Private collection, January 1999 (by purchase)
Exhibitions
Century Association, New York, Memorial Exhibition of Eastman Johnson, February 9–13, 1907, [possibly, as
Captain Manter, an Old Whaler]
.
Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, New York, Eastman Johnson: Painting America, October 29, 1999–February 6, 2000. (Exhibition catalogue: Carbone and Hills 1999), no. 40, as
Captain Nathan H. Manter. Traveled to: San Diego Museum of Fine Arts, San Diego, February 25–May 21, 2000; Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, June 8–September 10, 2000.
Nantucket Historical Association, Whitney Gallery at the Fair Street Research Library, Nantucket, Massachusetts, Eastman Johnson and His Contemporaries, Spring 2011–Fall 2012.
References
Carbone, Teresa A., and Patricia Hills. Eastman Johnson: Painting America. Brooklyn, NY:
Brooklyn Museum of Art, in association with Rizzoli International Publications,
1999.
Exhibition catalogue (1999 Brooklyn Museum), p. 80, no. 40, as
Captain Nathan H. Manter.
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. 266 [possibly, as
Captain Manter, an Old Whaler]
.
Simons, Benjamin. "Eastman Johnson and His Contemporaries on Nantucket." AFAnews.com [Antiques & Fine Art Magazine],
January 7, 2013.
Sitter Biography
Sitter: Manter, Nathan H.
Biography: Captain Nathan H. Manter (1818–1897). “The most famous of the old Nantucket steam-ship captains, retiring from service in 1891, having been employed on Island steamers about forty years, thirty of which were on the Island Home” [Letter from Richard C. Kugler, Director, Whaling Museum, January 27, 1969, to Mr. W. Myron Owen]. Erroneously reported as killed by a whale in 1851 [1907 Sale Cat. no. 53, Captain Coleman].
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Record last updated July 29, 2021. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Hills, Patricia, and Abigael MacGibeny. "Nathan H. Manter, 1873, November 7 (Hills no. 26.6.10)." Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné. www.eastmanjohnson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=442 (accessed on April 18, 2024).
