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

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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. 26.6.16
Baur no. 66
Charles C. Myrick
Nantucket Historical Association title: Portrait of Captain Charles Myrick (Study for Embers)
Alternate titles: Charles Myrick; Portrait of Capt. Charles Myrick; Portrait of Captain Charles Myrick (Study for "Embers")
1879
Oil on panel
22 x 20 7/8 in. (55.9 x 53 cm)
Signed and dated lower left: E. Johnson/1879
Description / Remarks

Nantucket Historical Association website, accessed February 26, 2021: "Half-length portrait of an elderly man with long grey hair and beard. Head is dropping forward. He is wearing black overcoat and beaver hat. Man holding ivory and wooden cane in left hand. His mouth is resting on head of cane. Grey neutral background."

Provenance
F. S. Church, until 1894 (by gift from the artist)
Nantucket Historical Association, Nantucket, Massachusetts, 1894 (by gift)
Exhibitions
1999 Brooklyn Museum
Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, New York, Eastman Johnson: Painting America, October 29, 1999–February 6, 2000. (Exhibition catalogue: Carbone and Hills 1999), no. 54, color illus., p. 96, as Portrait of Captain Charles Myrick (Study for "Embers"). Traveled to: San Diego Museum of Fine Arts, San Diego, February 25–May 21, 2000; Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, June 8–September 10, 2000.
2011 Nantucket Historical Association
Nantucket Historical Association, Whitney Gallery at the Fair Street Research Library, Nantucket, Massachusetts, Eastman Johnson and His Contemporaries, Spring 2011–Fall 2012.
References
Inquirer and Mirror Press 1895
Centennial Catalogue of the Nantucket Historical Association. Nantucket, MA: Inquirer and Mirror Press, 1895, no. 14, as Portrait of Capt. Charles Myrick.
Baur 1940
Baur, John I. H. An American Genre Painter: Eastman Johnson, 1824–1906. Brooklyn, NY: Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, 1940. Exhibition catalogue (1939 Brooklyn Museum), p. 63, no. 66, as Charles Myrick.
Crosby 1944
Crosby, Everett U. Eastman Johnson at Nantucket: His Paintings and Sketches of Nantucket People and Scenes. Nantucket, MA, 1944, pp. 15, 43, no. C.25, as Charles Myrick.
Historic Nantucket 1958
Historic Nantucket (October 1958), p. 36, 37, illus.
Carbone and Hills 1999
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. 96, no. 54, illus., as Portrait of Captain Charles Myrick (Study for "Embers").
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.

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Record last updated December 6, 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, 1879 (Hills no. 26.6.16)." Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné. www.eastmanjohnson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=444 (accessed on March 29, 2024).