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Portrait of Mrs. Jeremiah Chandler
Inscriptions
Signed [?] recto, lower right, in graphite: "E. Johnson 77"; inscribed verso, lower center, in graphite: "Mrs. Alexander Hamilton"; lower left, in graphite: "A580"; lower right, in graphite: "WCA 2441"; upper left, in graphite: "....3–7" [P.433-7 per Whitney Museum of American Art records]
Provenance
Sold by Associated American Artists to the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Apr. 7, 1937–1950. M. Knoedler’s, New York, by Mar. 22, 1971 [letter from Patricia Hills dated Sept. 28, 1994]. Mr. and Mrs. Eddy G. Nicholson, by 1995 [New York 1995 auct. cat.]; sold, Christie’s, Mar. 5, 2003, lot 94, to Dorothy Braude Edinburg, Brookline, MA; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2013.
Publications
Patricia Hills, The Genre Painting of Eastman Johnson: The Sources and Development of His Style and Themes (New York: Garland, 1977), p. 23.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Eastman Johnson / American, 1824–1906
- Date
- 1847
- Medium
- Graphite, heightened with white chalk, on brown wove paper
- Dimensions
- 21.6 × 16.3 cm (8 9/16 × 6 7/16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- prints and drawing
- Place
- United States
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection
- Accession no.
- 2013.953
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.
Open-access museum record · AT-00005947
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