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Photo: Courtesy of New York State Museum, Albany, New York
⊠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. 31.1.193
Baur no. 260
Jackson S. Schultz
1896
Oil on canvas
51 3/4 x 35 1/4 in. (131.4 x 89.5 cm)
Signed and dated upper left: E. Johnson/1896 [As in other Johnson paintings of the 1880s and 1890s, the "8" has a flat top]; lower right in red: 34 3/4
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Markings
Plate on frame: Jackson S. Schultz / Born at Hyde Park Dutchess Co. N.Y. Nov. 9, 1815 - Died in the City of New York Mar. 1, 1891 / Painted in 1896 by Eastman Johnson / Presented on May 7, 1896 to the Chamber of Commerce of the State of New York by / James Benedict, Samuel Thorne, Justus L. Bulkley, William H. Webb, Ambrose K. Ely, William P. Clyde,William B. Isham, William E. Dodge, Mark Hoyt, Charles A. Schieren, Edward R. Laden, Thomas Keck, Edward Kemp
Provenance
Chamber of Commerce, State of New York, 1896 (purchased for the Chamber of Commerce by James Benedict, Samuel Thorne, Justus L. Bulkley, William H. Webb, Ambrose K. Ely, William P. Clyde,William B. Isham, William E. Dodge, Mark Hoyt, Charles A. Schieren, Edward R. Laden, Thomas Keck, and Edward Kemp)
Exhibitions
Century Association, New York, May 2, 1896, [likely, as
Jackson S. Schultz]
.
References
Catalogue of Portraits in the Chamber of Commerce of the State of New York. New York:
New York Chamber of Commerce,
1924, p. 46, no. 138, as
Jackson S. Schultz.
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. 72, no. 260, as
Jackson S. Schultz.
Kusserow, Karl. Picturing Power: Portraiture and Its Uses in the New York Chamber of Commerce. New York:
Columbia University Press,
2013, p. 293, fig. 151
.
Hills Examination/Opinion
Examination date(s): 2018-06-25
Sitter Biography
Sitter: Schultz, Jackson S.
Biography: Jackson S. Schultz (1815–1891). Proprietor of the largest leather business in the world by the mid-nineteenth century, Jackson Schultz & Co., with offices on Pearl Street in New York City. Later “joined several colleagues in the Chamber of Commerce to support the development of a rapid transit system for the increasingly congested city” [New York State Museum catalogue record for Johnson’s portrait].
White, Terry James. he National Cyclopaedia of American Biography. Ann Arbor, MI: University Microfilms, 1967–.
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Record last updated July 26, 2021. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Hills, Patricia, and Abigael MacGibeny. "Jackson S. Schultz, 1896 (Hills no. 31.1.193)." In Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné. www.eastmanjohnson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=635 (accessed on May 1, 2025).
