Eastman Johnson

Eastman Johnson was born July 29, 1824 in Lowell, Maine. He studied lithography and worked as a portrait artist early in his career, and went to the Düsseldorf Academy in 1848 to study painting with Emanuel Leutze. After his return to the United States, he settled in New York. He began painting genre scenes, including several paintings sympathetic to the situation of blacks in the rural South. Later in his career, he and his wife traveled to Nantucket Island, Massachusetts in the summers, where he painted outdoor scenes. He died in New York on April 5, 1906.