Eastman Johnson
Eastman Johnson was an American painter and cofounder of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, with his name inscribed at its entrance. He was best known for his genre paintings, paintings of scenes from everyday life, and his portraits both of everyday people and prominent Americans such as Abraham Lincoln, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. His later works often show the influence of the 17thcentury Dutch masters, whom he studied in The Hague in the 1850s he was known as The American Rembrandt in his day.
Johnson was born in Lovell, Maine, the eighth and last child of Philip Carrigan Johnson and Mary Kimball Chandler . His elder siblings were Philip, sisters Harriet, Judith, Mary, Sarah, and Nell, and brother Reuben.
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