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

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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

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Hills no. 31.5.18
David H. Taylor
Alternate titles: possibly A Youthful Violinist; The Boy in Green; The Boy in Green - portrait of David H. Taylor (age 5)
1878
Locale: New York
Oil on canvas
52 x 32 in. (132.1 x 81.3 cm)
Signed and dated: E. Johnson 1878
Present whereabouts unknown
Description / Remarks

MacGibeny, 2021: A Johnson painting titled A Youthful Violinist, generally corresponding with this portrait in subject and size, was sold by the American Art Association in 1919 to David H. Taylor. If these paintings are one and the same, then either the sitter purchased his own portrait at auction or contemporary reports of the sale of the painting to Taylor were incorrect.

Provenance
[Possibly American Art Association, New York, April 16, 1919, An Important Collection of Oil Paintings by American and Foreign Artists, no. 218 (as A Youthful Violinist)]
Possibly David H. Taylor, the sitter, April 16, 1919 (by purchase)
Private collection (by bequest)
Private collection, maternal grandson of the sitter and nephew of the above, by 2007
Present whereabouts unknown
Exhibitions
1879a Century Association
Century Association, New York, January 11, 1879, [possibly, as Portrait of a Boy, Full-length].
1880d Century Association
Century Association, New York, June 5, 1880, [possibly, as Boy, Full-length].
1881 Century Association
Century Association, New York, January 8, 1881, [possibly, as Portrait, Full-length].
1882d Century Association
Century Association, New York, June 3, 1882, [possibly, as Portrait of a Boy, Full-length].
1900 Society of American Artists
Society of American Artists, New York, March 24–April 28, 1900, no. 326, [possibly, as Portrait of Boy with Violin].
References
Levy 1919
Levy, Florence S. American Art Annual. New York: American Art Annual, 1919, p. 259 [possibly, as A Youthful Violinist].
AAA 1919b
Catalogue of an Important Collection of Oil Paintings by American and Foreign Artists. New York: American Art Association, April 1919. Sale catalogue, n.p., no. 218 [possibly, as A Youthful Violinist].
American Art News 1919b
"Combination Picture Sale." American Art News 17, no. 28 (April 19, 1919), no. 218 [possibly, as A Youthful Violinist].
Sitter Biography
Sitter: Taylor, David H.
Biography:

David H. Taylor (1873–1961). New York lawyer with the firm Taylor, Wadsworth, and Burr in New York. Graduate of Columbia University and Columbia Law School. At the time of his death, he was the oldest member of the Union Club in New York. Johnson painted a portrait of him when he was a child.

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Record last updated March 22, 2022. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Hills, Patricia, and Abigael MacGibeny. "David H. Taylor, 1878 (Hills no. 31.5.18)." Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné. www.eastmanjohnson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=795 (accessed on April 29, 2024).