Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné
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Photo: Chazen Museum of Art
Samuel Worcester Rowse and Robert Walter Rutherford, 1880 (Hills no. 31.7.13). Inscription
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Photo: Chazen Museum of Art
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. 31.7.13
Baur no. 255
Samuel Worcester Rowse and Robert Walter Rutherford
Chazen Museum of Art title: Two Men (Study for The Funding Bill)
Alternate titles: Study for "Two Men" (Robert Rutherford and S. W. Rowse); Study for The Funding Bill; The Funding Bill—Study for Two Men; Two Men
1880
Oil on canvas
22 1/4 x 27 in. (56.5 x 68.6 cm)
Initialed and dated lower left: E J/1880
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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. "Samuel Worcester Rowse and Robert Walter Rutherford, 1880 (Hills no. 31.7.13)." Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné. www.eastmanjohnson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=709 (accessed on March 28, 2024).