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Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné
Patricia Hills, PhD, Founder and Director | Abigael MacGibeny, MA, Project Manager

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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
Locale: Troy, New York
Oil on canvas
39 3/4 x 49 1/4 in. (101 x 125.1 cm)
Signed and dated lower right: E. Johnson/1874
Collection of Shelburne Museum, Gift of Mary Rogers Warren (1966-122)
Description / Remarks

Shelburne Museum catalogue record, May 27, 2014: "Family portrait of Joseph Mabbett Warren (1813–1890), Adelaide Phelps Warren (1815–1891) and their son Stephen Warren (1852–1885) in the library of their home 'Montairy' (now part of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute) in Troy, New York. Mr. Warren and Stephen are seated in an upholstered love seat (Stephen holds a book) and Mrs. Warren stands gazing out of a heavily draped long window."

Provenance
William Henry Warren, Troy, New York, grandson of the sitter, by 1936
Mary Rogers Warren, Manchester, Vermont, his daughter, until 1966
Shelburne Museum, Shelburne, Vermont, 1966 (by gift)
Exhibitions
1999 Middlebury College Museum of Art
Middlebury College Museum of Art, Middlebury, Vermont, American Paintings from the Shelburne Museum, January 9–April 25, 1999.
2010 Middlebury College Museum
Middlebury College Museum of Art, Middlebury, Vermont, American Paintings and Works on Paper from Shelburne Museum, February 12–June 6, 2010.
References
Baur 1940
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. 277, as Joseph Mabbett Warren, His Wife, Elizabeth Adelaide Phelps and Their Son, Stephen Warren.
Sitter Biography
Sitter: Warren, Joseph Mabbett
Biography:

Joseph Mabbett Warren (1813–1896). Son of Stephen Warren (1783–1847) and Martha Cornell Mabbett (1791–1879). Husband of Elizabeth Adelaide Phelps Warren (1815–1891, m. 1835); father of three children [Adapted from Frick Art Reference Library record for Mrs. Joseph Mabbett Warren].

Sitter: Warren, Elizabeth Adelaide Phelps (Mrs. Joseph Mabbett Warren)
Biography:

Elizabeth Adelaide Phelps Warren (1815–1891). Daughter of Walter Phelps (1789–1874) and Julia Steele Black (1793–1877). Wife of Joseph Mabbett Warren (m. 1835); mother of three children [Frick Art Reference Library].

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Warren, Elizabeth Adelaide Phelps (Mrs. Joseph Mabbett Warren)
Warren, Joseph Mabbett
Warren, Stephen
Keywords
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 April 27, 2024).