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Joshua Johnson: Edward and Sarah Rutter  wikidata:Q20170717 reasonator:Q20170717
Artist
Joshua Johnson  (1765–1830)  wikidata:Q958068
 
Alternative names
Joshua Johnston
Description American painter
African-American
Date of birth/death circa 1763
date QS:P,+1763-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
circa  Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth West Indies
Work period between circa 1795 and circa 1825
date QS:P,+1500-00-00T00:00:00Z/6,P1319,+1795-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1825-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
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artist QS:P170,Q958068
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Title
English: Edward and Sarah Rutter
Object type painting Edit this at Wikidata
Genre portrait Edit this at Wikidata
Description
"Johnson, the son of an enslaved woman and a white man, was the first known African American artist in the United States to earn his living as a professional portrait painter. He worked in Baltimore, Maryland, from about 1789 to 1825, painting likenesses of sea captains, shopkeepers, and merchants and their families. In this portrait of Edward Pennington Rutter (ca. 1798–1827) and Sarah Ann Rutter (1802–1843), children of Captain Joshua and Mary Pennington Rutter of Baltimore, Johnson demonstrated his affinity for bright, strong colors and precise detail, as seen in the red bird at the left and the strawberries held by the children. There is an air of stillness, of suspended action, in Johnson’s portraits that is emphasized here by the intensity of the children’s gazes."
Date circa 1805
date QS:P571,+1805-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Medium oil on canvas
medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259
Dimensions 36 x 32 in. (91.4 x 81.3 cm)
institution QS:P195,Q160236
Current location
American Paintings and Sculpture
Accession number
65.254.3
Place of creation Baltimore, Maryland, United States
Object history Captain Joshua Rutter, Baltimore, died 1861; his grandson, Edward Rutter Hennick, by 1861; his sister, Sarah Ann (or Rebecca) Hennick (Mrs. John Paul Mettee); her daughter, Ida Mettee (Mrs. Joseph Nicholas Huber) until 1936; her brother, Milton Harry Mettee; his son, Edwin Rutter Mettee, Pikesville, Maryland, until at least 1951; Norton Asner Antiques, Baltimore, 1955–1956; Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch, Cambridge, Maryland, 1956–1965
Credit line Gift of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch, 1965
References
Source/Photographer https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/11269

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