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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
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Hills no. 26.6.18
Baur no. 257
Frederick Coleman Sanford
Alternate titles: Frederick C. Sanford; Mr. Frederick Sanford
1878
Oil on canvas
40 x 27 in. (101.6 x 68.6 cm) (sight)
Signed and dated lower right: E. Johnson/1878
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References
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. 71, no. 257, as
Mr. Frederick Sanford.
Crosby, Everett U. Eastman Johnson at Nantucket: His Paintings and Sketches of Nantucket People and Scenes. Nantucket, MA,
1944, pp. 17, 54, no. C.40, as
Frederick C. Sanford.
"Fifty Famous Nantucketers." Inquirer and Mirror (April 29, 1950).
Di Curcio, Robert A. Art on Nantucket: The History of Painting on Nantucket Island. Nantucket, MA:
Nantucket Historical Association,
1982, pp. 6, 15, illus.
Atheneum Trustee Meeting. April 27, 1986.
Lane, Jennifer. "State of the Arts: Art at the Atheneum." Nantucket Map & Legend,
1996.
Hills Examination / Opinion
Examination date(s): 1997-06-13
Sitter Biography
Sitter: Sanford, Frederick Coleman
Biography: Frederick Coleman Sanford (1809–1890). One of Nantucket’s great businessmen and benefactors. At various times a whaleman, merchant, and marine trader [Nantucket Atheneum info sheet, provided July 9, 2015]. Went to California during the 1949 Gold Rush and at that time worked as agent for ships in New York, amassing a fortune. Also helped sell the ship Great Republic in England. Son of Giles Sanford, Jr. and Peggy (Coleman). Married Mary Allen [Atheneum Catalog Worksheet].
Record last updated July 18, 2021. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Hills, Patricia, and Abigael MacGibeny. "Frederick Coleman Sanford, 1878 (Hills no. 26.6.18)." Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné. www.eastmanjohnson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=632 (accessed on April 19, 2024).
