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Birth
1824 (Lowell, Maine)
Death
1906 (New York, New York)
Lived/Active
Massachusetts
Self portrait - Eastman Johnson - Self Portrait
Often Known For
portrait, genre-figure, and landscape painting
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| A native of Lowell, 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 (showing 500 of 10148 characters). |
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