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Source Description
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 Moore, the talker; and on the left, leaning on his hand, Captain Ray. The other captains, he noted, were by then already deceased.Like a number of his fellow genre painters, the Boston artist trained abroad in Düsseldorf, Germany, and later at The Hague in the Netherlands, where he became familiar with Dutch 17th-century art. Between 1870 and 1887, Johnson spent the summer and autumn months working in Nantucket, Massachusetts.
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Document identity
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1441
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The Nantucket School of Philosophy
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Source metadata
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1441
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title
The Nantucket School of Philosophy
description
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 Moore, the talker; and on the left, leaning on his hand, Captain Ray. The other captains, he noted, were by then already deceased.Like a number of his fellow genre painters, the Boston artist trained abroad in Düsseldorf, Germany, and later at The Hague in the Netherlands, where he became familiar with Dutch 17th-century art. Between 1870 and 1887, Johnson spent the summer and autumn months working in Nantucket, Massachusetts.
provenance
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
date
1887
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CC0
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en
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Painting & Drawing
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import
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cm
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59
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80.5
dimensionsRaw
H: 23 1/4 x W: 31 11/16 in. (59 x 80.5 cm); Framed: H: 34 3/4 x W: 43 1/4 x D: 2 1/2 in. (88.3 x 109.9 x 6.4 cm)
Source extras
inscriptions
[Signed and date] Lower right: E. Johnson 1887.
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oil on panel
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