Eastman Johnson Prints
1824–1906 · American · Realism
Wall art by Eastman Johnson, restored in-house and printed to order on heavyweight matte fine-art paper.
10 prints · printed to order on heavyweight matte paper · framed or unframed
About Eastman Johnson
Eastman Johnson was born in Lovell, Maine, in July 1824, began as a crayon portraitist in Washington, and spent most of the 1850s in Europe, studying at Düsseldorf, working beside Emanuel Leutze and spending three years in The Hague copying Rembrandt and the Dutch masters, who earned him the nickname of the American Rembrandt. Back in New York he made his name in 1859 with Negro Life at the South and during the Civil War painted A Ride for Liberty, an escaping family on horseback he said he had seen near Manassas. He followed the maple-sugar camps of Maine and, from 1870, the cranberry harvest on Nantucket, then turned to grand portraits of New York's rich. A founder of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, he died in New York in April 1906. His harvest and childhood scenes print as warm, golden pictures for a dining room, hallway or child's room.