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Self-Portrait
Inscriptions
Signed recto, bottom-right corner, on wall, in brown paint: "E. Johnson / 1863".
Provenance
William H. Payne (1836–1907), Ann Arbor, MI, by 1907 [this and the following according to Hills, 32.0.8]; sold, American Art Association, New York, Jan. 6, 1919, lot 32, as Portrait of the Artist, to private collection. Grace Meeker (1869–1948; born Grace Murray, also Mrs. Arthur Meeker), Chicago, by 1923 [incoming receipt, R1345, Dec. 10, 1923; copy in curatorial object file]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1924.
Exhibition history
Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, prior to 1919. Galesburg, Illinois, Knox College, Mar. 25–Apr. 13, 1940. Brooklyn Museum of Art, Eastman Johnson: Painting America, Oct. 29, 1999–Feb. 6, 2000, cat. 27; San Diego Museum of Fine Arts, Feb. 25–May 21, 2000; Seattle Museum of Art, June 8–Sept. 10, 2000.
Publications
John I. H. Baur, An American Genre Painter: Eastman Johnson, 1824–1906 exh. cat. (Brooklyn Museum, 1940), 69, cat. 207. Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Art Institute of Chicago, 1961), 248. Teresa A. Carbone and Patricia Hills, Eastman Johnson: Painting America, exh. cat. (Brooklyn Museum of Art, 1999), 56, cat. 27. Patricia Hills, "Self-Portrait, 1863 (Hills no. 32.0.8)," Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné, accessed Aug. 5, 2021, https://www.eastmanjohnson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=684, (ill.).
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Eastman Johnson (American, 1824–1906)
- Date
- 1863
- Medium
- Oil on millboard
- Dimensions
- 39.4 × 30.5 cm (15 1/2 × 12 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- painting
- Style
- Realism
- Place
- United States
- Department
- Arts of the Americas
- Credit line
- Gift of Mrs. Arthur Meeker
- Accession no.
- 1924.126
More by Eastman Johnson in museum collections
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
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