Who was Henrietta Johnston?

Magazine Antiques, Nov, 1995 by Martha R. Severens

13 Quoted in The Carolina Chronicle: The Papers of Commissary Gideon Johnston, 1707-1716, ed. Frank J. Klingberg (Berkeley and Los Angeles, California, 1946), p. 31.

14 An entry for September 19, 1719, in the estate account book of Elizabeth Sindrey (d. 1705) of Charleston reads, "To Cost of Mr. Clapp picture being two pistoles paid Mrs. Johnson....[pounds]10.0.0" (cited in Henrietta Johnston: Who greatly helped, p. 16).

15 Letter dated July 5, 1710, quoted in Middleton, Henrietta Johnston of Charles Town, pp. 18-19.

16 Many Dering family portraits are in Parham Park, Pulborough, West Sussex, England.

17 Letter from Walter J. Karcheski Jr., curator of arms and armor, Higgins Armory Museum, Worcester, Massachusetts, April 2, 1993.

18 Anne Crookshank disputes Rutledge's three candidates for Johnston's teachers. Other names that have been offered are: Thomas Forster (c. 1677-1713), suggested by Desmond Fitzgerald, the Knight of Glin; Thomas Pooley (1646-1723), who was frequently patronized by the Percival and Southwell families; Garret Morphey (w. 1678-1715 or 1716), a native-born Irish painter whose portraits resemble Kneller's; and William Gandy (1660-1729). See Jane Fenlon, "French Influence in Late Seventeenth Century Portraits," Irish Arts Review, 1989, pp. 158-168.

19 See Jane Fenlon, "The Painter Stainers Companies of Dublin and London, Craftsmen and Artists, 1670-1740," New Perspectives: Studies in Art History in Honor of Anne Crookshank (Dublin, Ireland, 1987), p. 102.

20 For more about the history of pastels see Patrick J. Noon, English Portrait Drawings and Miniatures (New Haven, Connecticut, 1979), pp. ix-xi.

21 In 1725 Johnston went to New York City on the invitation of a Colonel John Moore (1686-1749), a native of Charleston, to do pastels of four members of his family. See Henrietta Johnston: Who greatly helped, p. 16.

MARTHA R. SEVERENS is the curator of the Greenville County Museum of Art in Greenville, South Carolina.