The Letter, (painting).

The Letter, (painting).

Stearns, Junius Brutus, 1810-1885, painter.

Lambdin, James Reid, 1807-1889, painter. (formerly attributed to)

Washington, William D., 1833-1870, painter. (formerly attributed to)

The Letter, (painting).

Digital Reference:

20 5/8 x 25 1/8 in.

(Lower right:) 65 - Stearns signed

Historical painting depicting a family receiving a letter from the front during the Civil War.

Architecture interior -- Domestic -- House

Figure group -- Family

Object -- Written Matter -- Letter

Johnson Collection, The, 100 Dunbar Street, Suite 203, Spartanburg, South Carolina 29306 Accession Number: 2004.04.20

Formerly in the collection of Anonymous Collection, Virginia

The painting was formerly attributed to James Reid Lamdin, and later William D. Washington. It has been published and exhibited as the work of Washington. The painting was correctly attributed to Stearns in 2010 by a group of curators from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.

The Johnson Collection, 2013.

Pennington, Estill Curtis, "Romantic Spirits: Nineteenth Century Paintings of the South, The Johnson Collection," Spartanburg, SC: The Johnson Collection, pg. 72.

Pennington, Estill Curtis, "Romantic Spirits: Nineteenth Century Paintings of the South, The Johnson Collection," Spartanburg, SC: The Johnson Collection, pg. 73.

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