Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné
Patricia Hills, PhD, Founder and Director | Abigael MacGibeny, MA, Project Manager
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Photo: Ken Burris (Shelburne Museum)
31.7 U.S. Portraits, Groups

Some of Johnson’s most memorable paintings were his small scale compositions of family groups. Such works as these, traditionally called “conversation pieces,” trace their pedigree to England and seventeenth-century Holland. They were commissioned group portraits of wealthy patrons as they wanted to be seen, usually surrounded by sumptuous furnishing and a coterie of family and friends. —PH

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Hills no. 31.7.15
Baur no. 277
The Joseph Mabbett Warren Family
Shelburne Museum title: Joseph Mabbett Warren Family of Troy, New York
Alternate titles: Joseph Mabbett Warren, His Wife, Elizabeth Adelaide Phelps and Their Son, Stephen Warren; The Warren Family of Troy, N.Y.
1874
Oil on canvas
39 3/4 x 49 1/4 in. (101 x 125.1 cm)
Signed and dated lower right: E. Johnson/1874
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Record last updated July 27, 2021. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Hills, Patricia, and Abigael MacGibeny. "The Joseph Mabbett Warren Family, 1874 (Hills no. 31.7.15)." Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné. www.eastmanjohnson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=706 (accessed on March 28, 2024).