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Eastman Johnson
American 1824 -1906
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Born: |
Lovell Maine
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Died: |
New York New York
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Active: |
Augusta Maine 1841-1849 Dusseldorf Germany 1849-1851 Holland Netherlands 1851-1855 Paris France New York New York 1859
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Addresses: |
New York New York Nantucket Massachusetts after 1869
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Studied: |
Dusseldorf Academy 1849-1851 France Italy The Hague 1851-1855
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Exhibited: |
National Academy of Design 1861-1900 Brooklyn Art Association 1861-1880, 1887 Boston Athenaeum Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts 1862-1863, 1877, 1893-1894, 1899-1902 Boston Art Club 1877-1903 Art Institute of Chicago Paris Exposition 1889, 1900 Carnegie Institute 1898-1901 Pan American Exposition 1901 St. Louis Exposition 1904 St. Louis Exposition
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Examples of Work: |
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York New York Historical Society, New York
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Specialty: |
Painter Instructor
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Style/School: |
Luminism
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Subjects Known For: |
Genre Portraits
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Memberships: |
National Academy of Design ANA 1859; NA 1860 Century Association Society of American Artists 1881
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BIOGRAPHY: |
Eastman Johnson studied art in Dusseldorf from 1849-51 and then at The Hague from 1851-55 where he was known as the "American Rembrandt". He also studied lithography for a year before he took up crayon portraiture. Upon re...
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Eastman Johnson, portrait and genre painter, was perhaps the most prominent and successful of the many American artists who came to the fore at the time of the Civil War. Born Jonathan Eastman Johnson in Lowell, Maine, Jul...
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