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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. 31.1.93
Baur no. 194
Henry Hanna
c.1857–58
Oil on canvas
27 x 22 in. (68.6 x 55.9 cm)
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Markings
Plaque on frame: HENRY HANNA / - BY - / EASTMAN JOHNSTON [sic]
Detached museum label, typed: CINCINNATI ART MUSEUM / Artist Eastman Johnson / Subject MR. HENRY HANNA / Donor Miss Mary Hanna / Number (typed in red) 1946.120
Detached label, handwritten, in ink: HANNA / 1959.1932
Detached label, handwritten, in ink: HANNA / 1911•1932\
Detached label, handwritten, in pencil: MISS MARY HANNA
Exhibitions
Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, Paintings by Former Cincinnati Artists, April 7–23, 1923.
Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, Portraits of Early Cincinnatians, May 19–June 19, 1932, no. 43
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References
"The Week in Art Circles." Cincinnati Enquirer,
April 15, 1923.
Siple, Walter H. "Notes on the Exhibition of Cincinnati Portraits." Bulletin on the Cincinnati Art Museum (October 1932), p. 122, 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. 194, as
Henry Hanna.
Cincinnati Art Museum Bulletin , pp. 118, 122
.
Hills Examination/Opinion
Examination date(s): 1971-06-10
Sitter Biography
Sitter: Hanna, Henry
Biography: Henry Hanna (1813–1905).
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Record last updated July 22, 2021. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Hills, Patricia, and Abigael MacGibeny. "Henry Hanna, c.1857–58 (Hills no. 31.1.93)." In Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné. www.eastmanjohnson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=563 (accessed on November 6, 2024).