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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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Photo: Grogan & Company
Josephine Fisher Pattison, 1858 (Hills no. 31.3.44). Verso - lower stretcher
Verso - lower stretcher
Photo: Grogan & Company
Josephine Fisher Pattison, 1858 (Hills no. 31.3.44). Verso
Verso
Photo: Grogan & Company
Josephine Fisher Pattison, 1858 (Hills no. 31.3.44). Verso - left stretcher
Verso - left stretcher
Photo: Grogan & Company
Josephine Fisher Pattison, 1858 (Hills no. 31.3.44). Verso label
Verso label
Photo: Grogan & Company
[ 31.3 U.S. Portraits, Women ]info
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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. 31.3.44
Josephine Fisher Pattison
Alternate titles: Portrait of a Lady; Portrait of a Young Woman in a Black Dress with a Lace Collar
1858
Locale: Cincinnati, Ohio
Oil on canvas
24 1/4 x 20 in. (61.6 x 50.8 cm)
Signed and dated lower left: E. Johnson/1858
Present whereabouts unknown
Markings
Verso, carved into lower stretcher bar: Painted by Eastman Johnson 1858; carved into left stretcher bar: Josephine Fisher Pattison[?] Cincinnati Ohio
Labels
Label on verso, upper frame: Mead Art Building, Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts; handwritten tag, tied to hanging wire: Driscoll Gallery, New York, New York
Provenance
Driscoll Gallery, New York
[Rafael Osona Auctions, Nantucket, Massachusetts]
William Postar
[Grogan & Company, Boston, October 26, 2014, Estate of William Postar, lot 174 (as Portrait of a Young Woman in a Black Dress with a Lace Collar)]
Present whereabouts unknown
Exhibitions
n.d. Mead Art Building, Amherst College
Mead Art Building, Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts, dates unknown.
Hills Examination/Opinion
Examination date(s): 1997-06-07
Examination notes: Looks like an EJ; pencil lines along lips; EJ eyebrows.
Sitter Biography
Sitter: Pattison, Josephine Fisher (possibly Mary. J. Pattison)
Biography:

Josephine Fisher Pattison (possibly Mary. J. Pattison 1841–1922). Married E. M. Pattison (possibly Edward M. Pattison, 1839–1927) (m. 1860). Both Mary J. Pattison and Edward M. Pattison are buried in Cincinnati.

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Record last updated July 31, 2021. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Hills, Patricia, and Abigael MacGibeny. "Josephine Fisher Pattison, 1858 (Hills no. 31.3.44)." In Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné. www.eastmanjohnson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=753 (accessed on May 2, 2025).