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

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45.5 U.S. Later Portrait Drawings, Children and Adolescents

When Johnson returned from Europe late in 1855 and moved in with his family in Washington, D.C., he began receiving portrait commissions. Like the commissioned drawings done earlier, Johnson generally used charcoal (named in some records as black chalk) with touches of white and created a strong chiaroscuro for his sitters. In his later professional years as a painter of oil few portraits of children are recorded. His art commanded high prices; perhaps families were then reluctant to include their children in sittings for portrait drawings. —PH

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Hills no. 45.5.4
Baur no. 318b
Mary Yates Hatch
Alternate title: Mary Hatch
c.1871
Charcoal heightened with white on brown paper
17 1/2 x 13 1/2 in. (44.4 x 34.3 cm) (sight)
Initialed lower right: E. J.
Provenance
Jane S. Hatch (Mrs. John C. F.) Gardner, sister of the sitter, by 1940
Present whereabouts unknown
References
Baur 1940
Baur, John I. H. An American Genre Painter: Eastman Johnson, 1824–1906. Brooklyn, NY: Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, 1940. Exhibition catalogue (1939 Brooklyn Museum), p. 75, no. 318b, as Mary Hatch.
Sitter Biography
Sitter: Willard, Mary Yates Hatch
Biography:

Mary Yates Hatch Willard (1856–1926). Daughter of Alfrederick Smith Hatch and Theodosia Ruggles Hatch.

Sitter: Hatch, Alfrederick Smith
Biography:

Alfrederick Smith Hatch (1829–1904). Prominent wall street broker, president of the New York Stock Exchange, 1883–1884, and enthusiastic art collector. Resided at 49 Park Avenue with his wife Theodosia Ruggles (1829–1908). Other family members including Theodosia’s mother, Alfrederick’s father, and their children are present in their group portrait by Johnson [Metropolitan Museum of Art website, accessed February 27, 2022].

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Record last updated March 23, 2022. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Hills, Patricia, and Abigael MacGibeny. "Mary Yates Hatch, c.1871 (Hills no. 45.5.4)." Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné. www.eastmanjohnson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=945 (accessed on March 29, 2024).