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

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Photo: Mead Art Museum, Amherst College
[ 31.4 U.S. Portraits, Women, Unidentified ]info
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31.4 U.S. Portraits, Women, Unidentified

The identities of the women in these portraits have not yet been confirmed. However, the paintings are known or believed to have been done in the United States based on factors including their style, inscribed dates, and the appearance of the sitters when images are available. Johnson painted the vast majority of his oil portraits after he returned to the United States from Europe in 1855. —AM

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Hills no. 31.4.5
Unidentified Elderly Woman
c.1857–58
Locale: Possibly Cincinnati, Ohio
Oil on canvas
23 x 18 7/8 in. (58.4 x 47.9 cm) (oval canvas)
Mead Art Museum at Amherst College, Gift of David P. Willis in Honor of Max Pepper (Class of 1951) and Anita Pepper (AC 1995.64)
Description / Remarks

Hills, 2021: The sitter's hands are clasped together as they rest on her lap; this detail is often not visible from photos.

Markings
Inscribed verso, center left: Eastman Johnson [illegible]
Provenance
M. Knoedler & Co., New York
David P. Willis, until 1995
Mead Art Museum at Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts, 1995 (by gift)
Hills Examination / Opinion
Examination date(s): 1970s
Examination notes: Stern-looking. Done early? Hands in front. Looks directly out.
Keywords
Record last updated September 30, 2022. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Hills, Patricia, and Abigael MacGibeny. "Unidentified Elderly Woman, c.1857–58 (Hills no. 31.4.5)." Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné. www.eastmanjohnson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=771 (accessed on May 5, 2024).