Eastman Johnson

Jonathan Eastman Johnson was an American painter and co-founder 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 17th-century Dutch masters, whom he studied in The Hague in the 1850s; he was known as The American Rembrandt in his day.

Exhibitions

4 exhibitions

May 24, 1938 – Jul 31, 1938

Three Centuries of American Art

247 artists · 7 curators

Nov 17, 1943 – Feb 06, 1944

Romantic Painting in America

123 artists · 1 curator

Sep 26, 1944 – Nov 12, 1944

American Battle Painting 1776–1918

71 artists · 1 curator

Sep 29, 1976 – Nov 30, 1976

The Natural Paradise: Painting in America 1800–1950

67 artists · 1 curator