Joshua Johnson portrait woman
Portrait of Elizabeth Wise Chandler
Attributed to Joshua Johnson (c. 1763-1832), Baltimore, Maryland
c. 1820
oil on artist's board
20" x 14"
Provenance: Ann Elizabeth (Chandler) Bandel (1817-1900), daughter of sitter; Mary Elizabeth (Bandel) Hakesley (1837-1932), daughter; Grace (Hakesley) Bryn (1874-1957), daughter; Private Collection; sold, Freeman’s, 20 November 2010, lot 41
Exhibition: Baltimore, Maryland, Maryland Historical Society, and traveling, “Joshua Johnson: Freeman and Early American Portrait Painter,” 26 September – 3 January 1988.
Literature: Carolyn Weekley and Stiles Colwill, eds., Joshua Johnson: Freeman and Early American Portrait Painter (1987), pp. 164-165, cat. no. 82; Philip Wingard, “From Baltimore to the South Carolina Backcountry: Thomas Chandler’s Influence on 19th-Century Stoneware,” Ceramics in America 2013, Robert Hunter, ed., p. 40, fig.3.