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historical notes
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Ralph Cross Johnson was a lawyer, art patron and collector.
Johnson owned paintings by, or attributed to, among others, George Romney, Sir Henry Raeburn, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Sir Thomas Lawrence, Lorenzo Lotto, Nicholas Maes, William Hogarth, Gainsborogh, Richard Wilson, David Cox, William Merritt Chase, J M W Turner, Guardi, Rembrandt.
In 1919, Johnson gave a portion of his art collection to The National Gallery of art (then located in the National Museum at Washington, DC, deed of gift June 19, 1919). The remainder of his art collection was left to his wife, Mattie Waller, and daughter, Mabel J. Langhorne (1872-1956, married Marshall Langhorne(1870-), in 1916). In a 1956 bequest, Mabel Langhorne left painting she had inherited from her father to the Smithsonian.
Johnson married twice: first in 1871 to Married Margaret Atherton Nichols, Boston (d. 1874); and then in 1879 to Mattie Waller, Richmond, VA, Mattie Waller. Johnson had two daughters: Mabel Johnson Langhorne, 1872-1956 (1916, married the dipolomat Marshall Langhorne, 1870-1942); and Margaret Atherton, 1874-1890 (died in Sienna, Italy).
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