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⊠30.3 Euro Portraits, Women
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 three-dimensionality. Studying the works of Rembrandt at the Hague inspired him to use the same techniques for his oil portraits. Whereas some of his portraits of men were commissions and others were of his close friends, such as Worthington Whittredge, his oil portraits of European women were almost exclusively commissions—often the spouses of the men who had commissioned pairs of portraits. —PH
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Hills no. 30.3.1
Mrs. Wybrandus Hendriksz
Alternate title: Mrs. Wybrandus Hendricksz
c.1852
Oil on paper laid down on board
12 3/4 x 10 3/8 in. (32.4 x 26.4 cm)
Neither signed nor dated, recto or verso
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Provenance
By descent in the family
Private collection, until 2006
Hills Examination / Opinion
Examination date(s): 2006-02-25
Examination notes: Much more painterly. Face in full light. Hands are painterly as are draperies at left and right. Lots of squiggly paint on face. Highlight on end of nose. Lips precise. Nice shadows to right of face. She leans against table. Turquoise dress; lace at collar and sleeves. Hair—very modern—fluffed up in back. Hole U.L. huge.
Sitter Biography
Sitter: Hendricksz, Wybrandus, Mrs.
Biography: Mrs. Wybrandus Hendricksz (life dates unknown). Wife of Wybrandus Hendricksz, royal oculist for William III of Orange, King of Holland.
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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. "Mrs. Wybrandus Hendriksz, c.1852 (Hills no. 30.3.1)." Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné. www.eastmanjohnson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=907 (accessed on March 29, 2024).