Detail of The Hatch Family |
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It
took Johnson about a year and a half to complete the Hatch family
portrait. He made many preparatory portrait sketches of various family
members and changed the painting to suit the family's growing brood.
After Emily Nicholas Hatch was born in August 1871, Johnson altered
his original composition and put the new baby at the center of the
painting, on the lap of her seven-year-old sister, Emily Theodosia.
The boy just behind Emily and baby is Frederic Horace Hatch, who would
later give the family portrait to the Metropolitan Museum. |
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