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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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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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