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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. 31.3.33
Emily Hollingsworth Henderson
Alternate titles: Portrait of a Young Woman in White; Portrait of Mrs. Emily Henderson Mather; Study for Emily Hollingsworth Henderson (Mrs. Charles Mather Henderson); Young Woman in White Dress
c.1883
Oil on canvas
18 x 14 in. (45.7 x 35.6 cm)
Initialed lower left: E.J.
Provenance
[Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York, 1977]
Donald Purdy, 1981
Sotheby's, May 15, 1991, lot 40 (as Portrait of a Young Woman in White); did not sell
[Christie's, May 21, 1996, Sale 7871, American Paintings, lot 20]
Present whereabouts unknown
Sitter Biography
Sitter: Henderson, Emily Hollingsworth (Mrs. Charles Mather Henderson)
Biography:
Emily Hollingsworth Henderson (1838–1922). Wife of prominent Chicago citizen Charles Mather Henderson, who was involved in many charitable relief organizations in the city, and who was a direct descendant of Cotton Mather, the Puritan clergyman [Josiah Seymour Currey, Chicago: Its History and Its Builders, vol. 5, entry for “Rudolph Matz”].
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Henderson, Emily Hollingsworth (Mrs. Charles Mather Henderson)
Keywords
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Record last updated February 25, 2022. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Hills, Patricia, and Abigael MacGibeny. "Emily Hollingsworth Henderson, c.1883 (Hills no. 31.3.33)." Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné. www.eastmanjohnson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=748 (accessed on May 6, 2024).