Self-Portrait
1889 · Oil on canvas on panel
45.7 × 35.2 cm (18 × 13 7/8 in.)
Art Institute of Chicago
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Eastman Johnson
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The Natural Paradise: Painting in America 1800�1950
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1976
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American Battle Painting 1776�1918
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1944
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Romantic Painting in America
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1943–1944
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Three Centuries of American Art
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1938
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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.
Source: Smithsonian Institution · Trust score: 90% · Updated 1mo ago
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