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
MacGibeny, 2021: Eastman Johnson married Elizabeth Williams Buckley of Troy, New York, in 1869. Their daughter, Ethel, was born in 1870.
The New York Times exhibition review, April 2, 1887: “One of the finest pieces in the exhibition is Mr. Eastman Johnson’s portrait of a lady in a black silk dress, with a waist of black lace and red. The colors of cushions, hangings of sofa and wall are rich and glowing; the features modeled charmingly after Mr. Johnson’s method of melting outlines; the pose is natural, and the expression agreeable.”
Elizabeth Williams Buckley Johnson (1838–1927). Born in Troy, New York to Phineas Henry Buckley (1800–1866) and Phebe McCoun (1803–1838). Wife of Johnson (m. 1869); mother of Ethel Eastman Johnson Conkling.
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