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30.1 Euro Portraits, Men
Johnson went to Europe in 1849 to learn techniques for creating figure paintings in oil. However, he had been a professional portrait draughtsman in Boston and Washington, D.C. for at least five years before that. In those early drawings he had a keen sense of creating heads using light tones and shadowed areas to create a strong three-dimensional effect. Studying the works of Rembrandt at The Hague inspired him to use the same techniques for his oil portraits. —PH
Hills no. 30.1.9
Worthington Whittredge
Cincinnati Art Museum title: Thomas Worthington Whittredge, N.A.
Alternate titles: possibly Whitredge, landscape painter; Portrait of Thomas Worthington Whittredge, N.A.
c.1850–51
Locale: Likely Düsseldorf, Germany
Oil on canvas attached to board
10 1/2 x 8 1/2 in. (26.7 x 21.6 cm)
Initialed lower left: E J.
Description / Remarks
William Walton, "Eastman Johnson, Painter," 1906: "It is Mr. [George Henry] Hall's recollection that his [Johnson's] first painted portrait was that of Whittredge."
Markings
Inscribed on verso, on backing board, upper left: (in circle) A17
Inscribed on verso, on backing board, upper center to upper right: Eastman Johnson Worthington Whittredge
Inscribed on verso, on backing board, upper left: 3500
Inscribed on verso, on backing board, upper center to upper right: Eastman Johnson Worthington Whittredge
Inscribed on verso, on backing board, upper left: 3500
Labels
Label on verso, on backing board, upper right: 3958
Stamp on verso, on backing board, upper right: PHOTO
Inscribed on verso, on backing board, upper center: BOX 24-1
Inscribed on verso, on backing board, upper center: (in circle) 68
Inscribed on verso, on backing board, upper left: JOHNSON, E. / W. WHITTREDGE / 11" x 8" / W1400 NEG # 4923
Label on verso, on backing board, center left: THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA / TUCSON, ARIZONA 85721 / UNIVERSITY ART GALLERY / EXHIBITION / American Painting / 1765-1963
Label on verso, on backing board, center: ARTIST JOHNSON, EASTMAN DATES 1824-1906 / TITLE WORTHINGTON WHITTREDGE / SIGNED lw/left / SIZE and MEDIUM 11x8-OIL / STOCK NO. W14000 NEG. NO. 4923 / KENNEDY GALLERIES, INC. / 20 EAST 56TH STREET · NEW YORK, N.Y. 10022 / Founded 1874 by H. Wunderlich 758-3850
Label on verso, on backing board, lower center: CINCINNATI / (icon) ART / MUSEUM / Great Art In Eden Park / 953 Eden Park Drive Cincinnati, OH 45202 / Eastman Johnson (American, 1824-1906). Thomas / Worthington Whittredge N.A., ca. 1854 / oil on canvas, attached to board / Museum Purchase: Bequest of Mr. and Mrs. Walter J / Wichgar, 1999.244 / ART MUSEUM / www.cincinnatiartmuseum.org
Inscribed on verso, on frame liner, upper center: Kennedy Match to frame
Inscribed on verso, on board, upper left: A2179
Inscribed on verso, on board, upper left: 98371 / M5X
Inscribed on verso, on board, center: Kennedy
Detached frame plate: 1824 EASTMAN JOHNSON 1906
Stamp on verso, on backing board, upper right: PHOTO
Inscribed on verso, on backing board, upper center: BOX 24-1
Inscribed on verso, on backing board, upper center: (in circle) 68
Inscribed on verso, on backing board, upper left: JOHNSON, E. / W. WHITTREDGE / 11" x 8" / W1400 NEG # 4923
Label on verso, on backing board, center left: THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA / TUCSON, ARIZONA 85721 / UNIVERSITY ART GALLERY / EXHIBITION / American Painting / 1765-1963
Label on verso, on backing board, center: ARTIST JOHNSON, EASTMAN DATES 1824-1906 / TITLE WORTHINGTON WHITTREDGE / SIGNED lw/left / SIZE and MEDIUM 11x8-OIL / STOCK NO. W14000 NEG. NO. 4923 / KENNEDY GALLERIES, INC. / 20 EAST 56TH STREET · NEW YORK, N.Y. 10022 / Founded 1874 by H. Wunderlich 758-3850
Label on verso, on backing board, lower center: CINCINNATI / (icon) ART / MUSEUM / Great Art In Eden Park / 953 Eden Park Drive Cincinnati, OH 45202 / Eastman Johnson (American, 1824-1906). Thomas / Worthington Whittredge N.A., ca. 1854 / oil on canvas, attached to board / Museum Purchase: Bequest of Mr. and Mrs. Walter J / Wichgar, 1999.244 / ART MUSEUM / www.cincinnatiartmuseum.org
Inscribed on verso, on frame liner, upper center: Kennedy Match to frame
Inscribed on verso, on board, upper left: A2179
Inscribed on verso, on board, upper left: 98371 / M5X
Inscribed on verso, on board, center: Kennedy
Detached frame plate: 1824 EASTMAN JOHNSON 1906
Provenance
Private collection, New York
Terry DeLapp Gallery, Los Angeles, until 1963
Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York, 1963
Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence A. Fleischman, Detroit, 1963 (by purchase)
Kennedy Galleries, Inc., New York
Dr. and Mrs. Sheldon Sterne, Franklin, Michigan, 1966–1999
[Doyle, New York, December 2, 1998, American Paintings & Sculpture, lot 121 (as Portrait of Thomas Worthington Whittredge, N.A.)]
Mr. and Mrs. Walter J. Wichgar
Cincinnati Art Museum, 1999 (by bequest)
Exhibitions
1964b University of Arizona Art Gallery
University of Arizona Art Gallery, Tucson, Arizona, Selections from the Lawrence A. and Barbara Fleischman Collection of American Art, February 1–March 29, 1964, no. 58, p. 60 [possibly].1966 Kennedy Galleries
Kennedy Galleries, New York, Past and Present: Two Hundred Years of American Painting. Part One: Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century, October 3–31, 1966, no. 161.References
Walton 1906
Walton, William. "Eastman Johnson, Painter." Scribner's Magazine 40 (September 1906), p. 265 [possibly].Kennedy Galleries 1920
Catalogue of an Exhibition of Charcoal Drawings by Eastman Johnson. New York: Kennedy Galleries, 1920. Exhibition catalogue (1920 Kennedy Galleries), p. 12, addendum “Paintings by Eastman Johnson" [possibly, as Whitredge, landscape painter].Sitter Biography
Sitter: Whittredge, Thomas Worthington
Biography:
Thomas Worthington Whittredge (1820–1910). American landscape painter and friend of Johnson. Studied at the Düsseldorf Academy, 1849–1854, and remained in Europe until 1859. Posed for both George Washington and the steersman in Emanuel Leutze's Washington Crossing the Delaware.
Whittredge, Worthington
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Record last updated March 27, 2022. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Hills, Patricia, and Abigael MacGibeny. "Worthington Whittredge, c.1850–51 (Hills no. 30.1.9)." Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné. www.eastmanjohnson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=666 (accessed on April 23, 2024).