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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. 31.1.70
Baur no. 182
Amos Richards Eno
Alternate titles: Amos Eno; Amos R. Eno
1899
Oil on canvas
52 x 35 in. (132.1 x 88.9 cm)
Signed and dated lower left: E. Johnson/1899 [As in other Johnson paintings of the 1880s and 1890s, the date has a flat top, and in this case, bottom]
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Markings
Plaque on front of frame: AMOS. R. ENO/PRESENTED BY HIS FAMILY/Painted in 1899 by Eastman Johnson
Exhibitions
Century Association, New York, April 1, 1899, as
Amos Eno.
References
Catalogue of Portraits in the Chamber of Commerce of the State of New York. New York:
New York Chamber of Commerce,
1924, p. 55, no. 176, illus.
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. 68, no. 182, as
Amos R. Eno.
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. 265, as
Amos Eno.
Kusserow, Karl. Picturing Power: Portraiture and Its Uses in the New York Chamber of Commerce. New York:
Columbia University Press,
2013, pp. 286–87
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Hills Examination/Opinion
Examination date(s): 2018-06-25
Sitter Biography
Sitter: Eno, Amos Richards
Biography: Amos Richards Eno (1810–1898). Real estate investor who began his career as a wholesale dry goods merchant and founded Second National Bank.
Catalogue of Portraits in the Chamber of Commerce of the State of New York. New York: New York Chamber of Commerce, 1924.
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Record last updated September 30, 2022. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Hills, Patricia, and Abigael MacGibeny. "Amos Richards Eno, 1899 (Hills no. 31.1.70)." In Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné. www.eastmanjohnson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=549 (accessed on December 2, 2024).
