Johnson, Eastman

Johnson, Eastman (b Lovell, Me., 29 July 1824; d New York, 5 Apr. 1906).
American painter and printmaker. He spent his early career in Boston (where he trained as a lithographer) and Washington, then from 1848 to 1855 studied in Europe—in Düsseldorf, The Hague, and Paris. After his return to the USA he worked in various places before settling in New York in 1859. He spent a good deal of time in rural areas, and his best pictures are generally thought to be his outdoor genre scenes, which are vigorous and fresh in observation (Cranberry Harvest, 1880, Timken AG, San Diego). In his later career he devoted himself mainly to fashionable portraiture, with which he earned a handsome living.