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

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31.3 U.S. Portraits, Women

Johnson’s paintings of women are often his best portraits, exhibiting a range of techniques and emphasizing their intelligent faces even when enwrapped in sumptuous fabrics, such as we see in Edwina Booth. —PH

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Hills no. 31.3.31
Baur no. 199a
Theodosia Ruggles Hatch
Alternate title: Mrs. Alfrederick S. Hatch
c.1871
Oil on academy board
17 x 11 1/2 in. (43.2 x 29.2 cm)
Signed lower left: E. Johnson
Present whereabouts unknown
Description/Remarks

Baur 1940, p. 69: "A study for the figure in [Baur] no. 199 (The Hatch Family)."

Provenance
Emily Nichols Hatch, daughter of the sitter, by 1940
Present whereabouts unknown
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. 69, no. 199a, as Mrs. Alfrederick S. Hatch.
Sitter Biography
Sitter: Hatch, Theodosia Ruggles (Mrs. Alfrederick S. Hatch)
Biography:

Theodosia Ruggles Hatch (1829–1909). Wife of Alfrederick Smith Hatch; daughter of Harriet Emily Nichols Ruggles.

Sitter: Hatch, Alfrederick Smith
Biography:

Alfrederick Smith Hatch (1829–1904). Prominent wall street broker, president of the New York Stock Exchange, 1883–1884, and enthusiastic art collector. Resided at 49 Park Avenue with his wife Theodosia Ruggles (1829–1908). Other family members including Theodosia’s mother, Alfrederick’s father, and their children are present in their group portrait by Johnson [Metropolitan Museum of Art website, accessed February 27, 2022].

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Record last updated March 2, 2022. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Hills, Patricia, and Abigael MacGibeny. "Theodosia Ruggles Hatch, c.1871 (Hills no. 31.3.31)." In Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné. www.eastmanjohnson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=739 (accessed on May 2, 2025).