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Photo: Reproduced in Chapellier Galleries, American Art Selections, 1974
⊠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
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Hills no. 31.5.7
Marguerite "Daisy" Hyde Leiter
Alternate titles: Daisy Leiter; Daisy Leiter (Countess of Suffolk); Daisy Leiter, Later Countess of Suffolk; Portrait of Daisy Leiter; Study for Portrait of a Young Girl; Study for Portrait of a Young Girl (Daisy Leiter)
c.1884
Oil on canvas
20 1/4 x 16 1/4 in. (51.4 x 41.3 cm)
Initialed lower right: E.J.
Private collection, Palo Alto, California
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Provenance
Private collection, Palo Alto, California, 1999 (by purchase)
References
"Chapellier Galleries advertisement." American Art Review (September–October 1973), as
Portrait of Daisy Leiter.
American Art Selections. New York:
Chapellier Galleries,
1974.
Exhibition catalogue, n.p., no. 14, as
Daisy Leiter, Later Countess of Suffolk.
Hills Examination / Opinion
Examination date(s): 1972 (Detroit?)
Sitter Biography
Sitter: Leiter, Marguerite "Daisy" Hyde, Countess of Suffolk
Biography: Marguerite "Daisy" Hyde Leiter, Countess of Suffolk (1879–1968). Younger daughter of Levi Zeigler Leiter of Washington, co-founder of the Marshall Field department store chain [Richard Ormond and Elaine Kilmurray, John Singer Sargent: Portraits of the 1890s (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2002), p. 142] and his wife Mary Theresa Carver [Frick Art Reference Library]. Married Henry Molyneux Paget Howard (m. 1904), the nineteenth Earl of Suffolk and twelfth Earl of Berkshire [Ormond]. The sitter was a relative of the artist [Frick Art Reference Library]. “After she was widowed in 1917, Daisy returned to America, taking up residence in Tucson, Arizona until her death in 1968” [Adelson Galleries].
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Leiter, Marguerite "Daisy" Hyde, Countess of Suffolk
Record last updated July 28, 2021. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Hills, Patricia, and Abigael MacGibeny. "Marguerite "Daisy" Hyde Leiter, c.1884 (Hills no. 31.5.7)." Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné. www.eastmanjohnson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=791 (accessed on April 25, 2024).
