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Eastman Johnson (1824-1906)
Aliases: Jonathan Eastman Johnson
Professions: Painter
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Eastman Johnson (1824-1906)
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EASTMAN JOHNSON 1824-1906 AT THE CAMP - SPINNING YARNS AND WHITTLING Measurements: 19 by 23in. Alternate Measurements: (48.2 by 58.4 cm) signed with the artist's initials E.J., l.l. oil on board Painted circa 1864-1866. Provenance: Mrs. Eastman
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Eastman Johnson (1824-1906)
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Play Me a Tune
Eastman Johnson Biography
(b Lovell, ME, 29 July 1824; d New York, 5 April 1906). American painter and printmaker. Between 1840 and 1842 he was apprenticed to the Boston lithographer John H. Bufford (1810–70). His mastery of this medium is apparent in his few lithographs, of which the best known is Marguerite (c. 1865–70; Worcester, MA, Amer. Antiqua. Soc.). In 1845 he moved to Washington, DC, where he drew portraits in chalk, crayon and charcoal of prominent Americans, including Daniel Webster , John Quincy Adams and Dolly Madison (all 1846; Cambridge, MA, Fogg). In 1846 he settled in Boston and brought his early portrait style to its fullest development. His chiaroscuro charcoal drawings, of exceptional sensitivity, were remarkably sophisticated for an essentially self-trained artist. In 1848 he travelled to Europe to study painting at the Düsseldorf Akademie. During his two-year stay he was closely associated with Emanuel Leutze, and painted his first genre subjects, for example The Counterfeiters (c. 1851–5; New York, IBM Corp.). He then spent three years in The Hague, studying colour, composition and naturalism in 17th-century Dutch painting. The influence of the Dutch masters on his portrait style was so great that he was called ‘the American Rembrandt’. In 1855, after two months in Thomas Couture’s Paris studio, he returned to America. He then turned his attention to American subject-matter. He made studies of Indians in Wisconsin, and painted portraits while in Washington (e.g. George Shedden Riggs , c. 1855; Baltimore, Mus. & Lib. MD Hist.) and Cincinnati. He finally settled in New York.
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JONATHAN EASTMAN JOHNSON(Footnote 1) (1824-1906) The Chimney Sweep
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