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Photo: Frick Art Reference Library, gift of Mrs. Franklin P. Ferguson, 1944
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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
Hills no. 31.3.35
Mary Elizabeth Appleton Hoyt
Alternate titles: possibly Mrs. Gerald Hoyt; Mrs. Gerald L Hoyt (née Mary Appleton); Mrs. Gerald L. Hoyt (Mary Appleton); Portrait of Mrs. Gerald Hoyt
c.1888
Oil on canvas
27 x 22 in. (68.6 x 55.9 cm)
Initialed lower right: E. J.
Description / Remarks
Anderson Galleries sale catalogue, 1924: "Bust, head and shoulders slightly to the right, pretty dark-eyed young woman in grey evening gown; complementary background."
Provenance
[Anderson Galleries, Inc., April 28–29, 1924, Fifty-Nine Paintings from the Estate of the Late Benno Loewy New York City and Twenty-Four Paintings to be Sold by Order of Mr. J. H. Dripps Philadelphia, PA. and Other Collections, no. 129 (as Portrait of Mrs. Gerald Hoyt)]
Ehrich Galleries, New York, before 1936
Mrs. Franklin Ferguson Collection, Greenwich, Connecticut
Bernard Danenberg Galleries, New York, by 1970
Geraldine Rockefeller Dodge
Beacon Hill Fine Art
[Unidentified auction house, May 27, 1998]
[Mystic Fine Arts Ltd., Mystic, Connecticut, August 28, 2000, lot 289 (as Portrait of Mrs. Gerald Hoyt)]
Present whereabouts unknown
Exhibitions
1970 Danenberg and Levy
Bernard Danenberg and Bernard and S. Dean Levy, Inc, New York, Discoveries in Nineteenth Century American Paintings, April 21–May 9, 1970, as Mrs. Gerald L Hoyt (née Mary Appleton).References
Kennedy Galleries 1920
Catalogue of an Exhibition of Charcoal Drawings by Eastman Johnson. New York: Kennedy Galleries, 1920. Exhibition catalogue (1920 Kennedy Galleries), p. 11, addendum "Paintings by Eastman Johnson" [possibly, as Mrs. Gerald Hoyt].Anderson Galleries 1924
Benno Loewy and J. H. Dripps and others Sale. New York: Anderson Galleries, April 28–29, 1924. Sale catalogue, p. 37, no. 129, as Portrait of Mrs. Gerald Hoyt.Sitter Biography
Sitter: Hoyt, Mary Appleton (Mrs. Gerald Livingston Hoyt)
Biography:
Mary Elizabeth Appleton Hoyt (1860–1927). Daughter of Daniel Fuller Appleton and Julia May Randall Appleton; wife of Gerald Livingston Hoyt.
Hoyt, Mary Elizabeth Appleton (Mrs. Gerald Livingston Hoyt)
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Record last updated February 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. "Mary Elizabeth Appleton Hoyt, c.1888 (Hills no. 31.3.35)." Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné. www.eastmanjohnson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=741 (accessed on May 8, 2024).