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Photo: Courtesy of the Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art at Hamilton College
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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. 26.6.12
William C. Mooers
Hamilton College (Fred L. Emerson Gallery) title: Captain Moore, A Nantucket Whaler
Alternate title: Study of Captain Moore
c.1873–87
Locale: Nantucket, Massachusetts
Oil on canvas
7 1/4 x 9 1/8 in. (18.4 x 23.2 cm)
Initialed lower left in red: E J
Description / Remarks
MacGibeny, 2021: This is a study for the figure of Captain Mooers, who is seated in the center of Johnson's painting Old Whalers of Nantucket, 1887.
Provenance
Robert H. Burton, until 1963
Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, 1963 (gift of Robert H. Burton)
Terry De Lapp Gallery, Los Angeles, California (by trade or purchase from Brigham Young University)
Richard York Gallery, New York, until 1982
Robert di Curcio, 1982 (by purchase)
Walter Beinecke, Jr., 1982–1989 (by purchase)
Hamilton College (Fred L. Emerson Gallery), Clinton, New York, 1989 (by gift)
Exhibitions
1992 Fred L. Emerson Gallery
Fred L. Emerson Gallery, Hamilton College, Clinton, New York, Highlights from the Hamilton College Collection, June 5–September 6, 1992. (Exhibition catalogue: Emerson Gallery 1992), no. 10.References
Friends of Art Newsletter 1990
"Acquisitions." Friends of Art Newsletter (Hamilton College, Clinton, NY) 1, no. 3 (April 1990).Emerson Gallery 1992
Highlights of the Hamilton College Collection. Clinton, NY: Emerson Gallery, Hamilton College, 1992. Exhibition catalogue (1992 Fred L. Emerson Gallery), no. 10.Hills Examination / Opinion
Examination date(s): 1982-03-12
Examination notes: Saw (transparency on file). Identification of "Moore" not clear.
Sitter Biography
Sitter: Mooers, William C.
Biography:
Captain William C. Mooers (Nantucket 1823–1900). Nantucket whaling captain.
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Record last updated March 22, 2022. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Hills, Patricia, and Abigael MacGibeny. "William C. Mooers, c.1873–87 (Hills no. 26.6.12)." Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné. www.eastmanjohnson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=452 (accessed on May 1, 2024).