Eastman Johnson ART FOR SALE

Portrait of Eastman Johnson: Self-portrait

1824 Lovell, Maine - 1906 New York City. Known for: Portrait, genre-figure, and landscape painting.

Lots Sold: 64%, High Price: Subscribe, Per sq in: Subscribe.

A native of Lovell, Maine and raised in Augusta, Eastman Johnson earned a reputation as a renowned painter of sentimental genre. His father operated a tavern in Lovell and also built homes there before moving the family to nearby Fryeburg in 1828. Again the father operated a hotel, which gave his young son much exposure to a variety of human beings and activities. When Eastman was ten, the family moved again, this time to Augusta, Maine, where Eastman became a clerk in a dry good store and where the family prospered. He went to Boston at age sixteen to train as a lithographer but shortly after returned to Augusta and built his art career on more familiar territory. From there he moved from town to town in the 1840s, making a living doing... Read full biography

Lots364 SaleSell/buySell/BuySale / Wanted2 / 4 Charts SigsSignatures26 Artist Info Similar32

Eastman Johnson - Art for Sale (2 available)

Art For Sale (2)

Art Wanted (4)Art Dealers (15)

Crossing a Stream

Type:Painting

Year:1866

Size:21.00" x 17.00"

Medium:Oil

Signed:Lower Right

Notes:

PROVENANCE The artist. General Benjamin Rush Cowen, Washington, D.C.,1870s Mrs. William Wyatt Breckinridge, granddaughter of the above, Montrose, Alabama, by descent, by 1954 Mrs. J.A. Barnard, New York Kennedy Galleries, Inc., New York

Price: Please contact Thomas Colville Fine Art

Image not available

Wigwams

Type:Painting

Year:1869

Size:8.63" x 10.88"

Medium:Oil

Signed:Signed and Dated

Notes:

Alternate title: Kentucky Mountain Corn Signed and dated lower right: E. Johnson / July / 1869 Titled verso in ink: Kentucky Mountain Corn

Price: Please contact Graham Shay 1857