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Eastman Johnson

Eastman Johnson (1824 - 1906) was active/lived in Massachusetts, Maine / Europe.  Eastman Johnson is known for Portrait, genre-figure, and landscape painting.

A native of Lovell, Maine and raised in Augusta, Eastman Johnson earned a reputation as a renowned painter of sentimental genre.  His father operated a tavern in Lovell and also built homes there before moving the family to nearby Fryeburg in 1828.  Again the father operated a hotel, which gave his young son much exposure to a variety of human beings and activities.  When Eastman was ten, the family moved again, this time to Augusta, Maine, where Eastman became a clerk in a dry good store and where the family prospered.

He went to Boston at age sixteen to train as a lithographer but shortly after returned to Augusta and built his art career on more familiar territory.  From there he moved from town to town in the 1840s, making a living doing crayon portraits in eastern cities including Washington D.C. where he used a Senate committee room.  In 1849, he went to Dusseldorf, Germany to study under Emanuel Leutze, then traveled to Italy and France and spent   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 14416 characters.]  Artist bio

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