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. 26.6.6
Peter Folger
Nantucket Historical Association title: Portrait of Peter Folger
Alternate title: possibly Portrait of the Late Peter Folger
1882
Oil on board
26 5/8 x 22 1/4 in. (67.6 x 56.5 cm)
Signed and dated lower right: E. Johnson/1882 [As in other Johnson paintings of the 1880s and 1890s, the date has a flat top]
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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. "Peter Folger, 1882 (Hills no. 26.6.6)." Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné. www.eastmanjohnson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=446 (accessed on March 29, 2024).