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

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Johnson went to Europe in 1849 to learn techniques for creating figure paintings in oil. However, he had been a professional portrait draughtsman in Boston and Washington, D.C. for at least five years before that. In those early drawings he had a keen sense of creating heads using light tones and shadowed areas to create a strong three-dimensional effect. Studying the works of Rembrandt at The Hague inspired him to use the same techniques for his oil portraits. —PH

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Hills no. 30.1.3
Wybrandus Hendriksz
Alternate titles: Portrait of Dr. Hendricksz; Portrait of Dr. Wybrandus Hendricksz; Portrait of Dr. Wybrandus Hendricksz, noted oculist to Willem of Orange, the King of Holland
1853, January
Locale: The Hague, the Netherlands
Oil on canvas
59 3/4 x 44 in. (151.8 x 111.8 cm)
Signed and dated lower left: E. Johnson./Jan. 1853
Joseph Szymanski, Rock Hall, Maryland
Provenance
Christie's, December 2, 1988, lot 96 (as Portrait of Dr. Wybrandus Hendricksz); did not sell
Christie's, March 16, 1990 (as Portrait of Dr. Hendricksz); did not sell
Joseph Szymanski, Rock Hall, Maryland, 1990
References
Carbone and Hills 1999
Carbone, Teresa A., and Patricia Hills. Eastman Johnson: Painting America. Brooklyn, NY: Brooklyn Museum of Art, in association with Rizzoli International Publications, 1999. Exhibition catalogue (1999 Brooklyn Museum), p. 26, fig. 18.
Sitter Biography
Sitter: Hendriksz, Wybrandus
Biography:

Wybrandus Hendriksz (1814–1873). Dutch physician. “Royal oculist for William III of Orange, King of Holland” [Christie’s sale catalogues]. Father Pieter founded the hospital at Zuiderburg, an estate near The Hague, which Wybrandus and his brother continued to run after their father’s death.

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Record last updated March 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. "Wybrandus Hendriksz, 1853, January (Hills no. 30.1.3)." Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné. www.eastmanjohnson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=900 (accessed on April 19, 2024).