JOHNSON, EASTMAN

1824-1906), an American painter, 6. in well, Me. ie studied art at the Royal Academy, in Du eldorf, Germany, after which he traveled and for a while resided at the Hague, Holland. During this period he produced a number of canvases showing the influence of the old Dutch masters, among these being The Savoyard and and The Card Players. Returning to the United States, in 1856, he made a long study of rustic life, especially in the negro districts of the South. Later he produced @ number of pictures which were widely copied in lithographs and became very popular. Among them were Old Kentucky Home, and The Husking Bee. He also painted a great number of portraits of prominent people, among his sitters being Abraham Lincoln, Grover Cleveland, Benjamin Harrison and John D. Rockefeller.