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

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31.1 U.S. Portraits, Men

When Johnson returned to the United States, he not only painted genre paintings but he also continued to paint portraits, which gave him a steady income. After 1880 Johnson turned to portraiture almost exclusively. During the 1880s and 1890s he painted businessmen, lawyers, university presidents, and three U.S. presidents from life. At times he also painted their wives and children.

He was also commissioned to paint posthumous portraits, often from photographs. These portraits by and large do not have the sparkle and active brushwork of those done from life. It seems that the demand for portraits of business and civic leaders (and members of exclusive men’s clubs) was so high that portrait painters would often make copies of each other’s paintings to satisfy the market for such images. In many instances, it has been difficult to render opinions for such paintings. —PH

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Hills no. 31.1.67
Leonard Henry Eicholtz
Alternate titles: Colonel Leonard H. Eicholtz; Leonard Henry Eichholtz [sic]
1889
Oil on canvas
36 x 30 in. (91.4 x 76.2 cm)
Signed and dated lower right: 1889/E. Johnson [As in other Johnson paintings of the 1880s and 1890s, the date has a flat top]
Present whereabouts unknown
Provenance
By descent in the family of the sitter
Calvert Gallery, Washington, D.C.
[Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., New York, November 12–16, 1974, lot 465 (as part of the pair Colonel Leonard H. Eichholtz [sic] and Ellen Inslee Smith Eichholtz [sic]: A Pair of Portraits]
Present whereabouts unknown
Sitter Biography
Sitter: Eicholtz, Leonard Henry, Colonel
Biography:

Leonard Henry Eicholtz (1827–1911). Railway engineer who worked for the Philadelphia & Erie Railway Company, Union Pacific Railway Company, and Kansas Pacific Railway Company, among others.

Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, November 12–16, 1974

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Record last updated August 28, 2022. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Hills, Patricia, and Abigael MacGibeny. "Leonard Henry Eicholtz, 1889 (Hills no. 31.1.67)." Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné. www.eastmanjohnson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=548 (accessed on April 18, 2024).