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

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[ 31.5 U.S. Portraits, Children and Adolescents ]info
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31.5 U.S. Portraits, Children and Adolescents

Johnson’s portraits of children and adolescents were often part of a larger commission to paint whole families. In some instances, the children had died and their parents wished to have a reminder of their loved ones. —PH

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Hills no. 31.5.3
Helen Fahnestock
1879
Oil on canvas
26 1/2 x 20 1/2 in. (67.3 x 52.1 cm)
Signed and dated lower right: E. Johnson/-79
Present whereabouts unknown
Description / Remarks

MacGibeny, 2021: Portrayed as a child by Johnson, Helen Fahnestock later married John Hubbard, whose father Thomas Hamlin Hubbard (1838–1915), a Civil War Union general, lawyer, and railroad executive, and grandfather John Hubbard (1794–1869), who was Governor of Maine 1850-1853, also were portrayed by Johnson.

Provenance
Mrs. M. Hare, granddaughter of the sitter, by 1970s (by descent)
Present whereabouts unknown
References
Living Church 1955
The Living Church 131 (September 11, 1955), p. 29, obituary.
Sitter Biography
Sitter: Hubbard, Helen Fahnestock Campbell (Mrs. C. G. Campbell, later Mrs. John Hubbard)
Biography:

Helen Fahnestock Campbell Hubbard (1872–1955). Wife of C. G. Campbell, then John Hubbard (not Governor John Hubbard of Maine, portrayed by Johnson). Her obituary in The Living Church states that one of her surviving grandchildren was Mrs. Robert Hare.

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Record last updated March 22, 2022. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Hills, Patricia, and Abigael MacGibeny. "Helen Fahnestock, 1879 (Hills no. 31.5.3)." Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné. www.eastmanjohnson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=734 (accessed on May 5, 2024).