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Eastman Johnson
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
or EASTMAN JOHNSON (1824-1906), American artist, was born at Lovell, Maine, on the 29th of July 1824. He studied at Dusseldorf, Paris, Rome and The Hague, the last city being his home for four years. In 1860 he was elected to the National Academy of Design, New York. A distinguished portrait and genre painter, he made distinctively American themes his own, depicting the negro, fisherfolk and farm life with unusual interest. Such pictures as "Old Kentucky Home" (1867), "Husking Bee" (1876), "Cranberry Harvest, Nantucket" (1880), and his portrait group "The Funding Bill" (1881) achieved a national reputation. Among his sitters were many prominent men, including Daniel Webster; Presidents Hayes, Arthur, Cleveland and Harrison; William M. Evarts, Charles J. Folger; Emerson, Longfellow, Hawthorne, James McCosh, Noah Porter and Sir Edward Archbald. He died in New York City on the 5th of April 1906.
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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Eastman Johnson'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/e/eastman-johnson.html. 1910.
