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31.5 U.S. Portraits, Children and Adolescents
Johnson’s portraits of children and adolescents were often part of a larger commission to paint whole families. In some instances, the children had died and their parents wished to have a reminder of their loved ones. —PH
Hills no. 31.5.1
Florence Einstein
Alternate titles: Portrait of a Child; Portrait of a Girl; Young English Girl Reading
1883
Oil on canvas
54 1/4 x 40 1/4 in. (137.8 x 102.2 cm)
Signed and dated lower left: E. Johnson/1883
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Markings
Stamps on verso of canvas: Prepared by/F.W. Devoe & Co./New York/Manufacturers [circle]/…./Artist's Materials; 3
Top stretcher bar: No 15
Top stretcher bar: No 15
Provenance
Exhibitions
National Academy of Design, New York, 1883. (Exhibition catalogue: NAD 1883), no. 348, as Portrait of a Child.
World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, May 1–October 31, 1893. (World's Columbian Exposition 1893), no. 622, as Portrait of a Girl, lent by D. L. Einstein, New York.
References
World's Columbian Exposition. Revised Catalogue, Department of Fine Arts. Chicago: W. B. Gonkey Company, 1893. Exhibition catalogue (1893 Columbian Exposition), p. 53, no. 669, as Portrait of a Girl.
Spassky, Natalie, with Linda Bantel, Doreen Bolger Burke, Meg Perlman, and Amy L. Walsh. American Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Vol. 2, A Catalogue of Works by Artists Born between 1816 and 1845. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1985, p. 11, letter from Lewis Einstein to the Museum, 1948: "Eastman Johnson also painted about the same time [as my portrait] a portrait of my sister Lady Walston, then a girl of eight or nine & who is seated on the stairs. I believe that this portrait was exhibited, by the artist's request, at the Chicago World Fair. It is now in my sister's place 'Newton Hall' near Cambridge," p. 11, Spassky: "The portrait, which is in a private collection, is the same size as the one of Einstein and was probably intended as a companion to it. The paintings complement each other in the angular pose of the figures and the use of oblique planes and diagonals."
Hills Examination / Opinion
Examination date(s): July 20, 1984
Sitter Biography
Sitter: Walston, Florence Einstein Seligman (Mrs. Theodore Seligman, then Lady Walston)
Biography:
Florence Einstein Seligman Walston (1873–1953). Daughter of David Lewis Einstein and Caroline Einstein; sister of Lewis David Einstein (1877–1967); wife of Theodore David Seligman (m. c. 1893; he died 1907) and Sir Charles Walston, Lord Walston (m. 1909; he died 1927)—in 1918, Charles Waldstein changed his last name to Walston.
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Walston, Florence Einstein Seligman (Mrs. Theodore Seligman, later Lady Walston)
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Record last updated September 7, 2021. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Hills, Patricia, and Abigael MacGibeny. "Florence Einstein, 1883 (Hills no. 31.5.1)." Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné. www.eastmanjohnson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=785 (accessed on April 20, 2024).