Johnson painted this group portrait for William Tilden Blodgett, a wealthy New York manufacturer and avid art collector, who is shown with his family in the parlor of their house at 27 West Twenty-fifth Street. The room, with its richly contrasting wood paneling, is a superb example of the Renaissance Revival style, and relates closely to the Museum’s parlor from Meriden, Connecticut (1870), adjoining this gallery.
Artist: Eastman Johnson (American, Lovell, Maine 1824–1906 New York) Date: 1851Medium: Graphite and white chalk on brown wove paperAccession: 1991.337On view in:Not on view