Thieme, A. C.
Size: 3 Items (on partial microfilm reel)
Summary: Photographs of a charcoal sketch and 2 oil portraits of A. C. Thieme's grandparents, Johann Adrian Friederich Thieme and Alida Elisabeth Lothz Thieme. The oil portraits were painted by Eastman Johnson while he was in Holland, 1852-1853.
Donated 1963 by C.J.F. Thieme, great-grandson of the subjects of the portraits, and Anna Cornelia (A.C.) Thieme, granddaughter of the subjects and owner of the art works. According to A. C. Thieme, Johnson painted the portraits at the request of her grandparents, who had seen the sketch of themselves while staying in a hotel in Holland,1852, where Johnson was compiling background faces for a painting.
35mm microfilm reel 3480 available for use at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
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Photographs of Eastman Johnson portraits, 1963. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
