The Nantucket School of Philosophy

1887

80.5 cm 59 cm

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In this work, Johnson's last dated painting of everyday life, a group of elderly men, seated around a stove in a cobbler's shop, reminisces about the past. Two years after the picture was completed, Johnson identified the philosophers: Captain Haggerty, the shoemaker; Captain...

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Acquired by Edward D. Adams, New York. Acquired by Knoedler and Co., New York; Sale, Knoedler and Co., New York, April 5, 1924 [1]; purchased by Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1924; by bequest to Walters Art Museum, 1931.[1] Ed King's Notebook, Walters-Anderson Correspondence, etc. list this date as April 3, 1924 conflicting the date of the Knoedler and Co. Sale
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