Eastman Johnson

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American artist genre painter human painter portrait painter

Eastman Johnson was a prominent 19th-century American painter, often called the “American Rembrandt,” known for his genre scenes and portraits that captured everyday life and notable figures of his time.

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	American artist → genre painter → human → painter → portrait painter →
activeYearsEnd	early 1900s →
activeYearsStart	1840s →
countryOfCitizenship	United States of America →
dateOfBirth	1824-07-29 →
dateOfDeath	1906-04-05 →
depicts	African American life before the Civil War → children and family life → everyday life in 19th-century America → rural life in New England → scenes related to the American Civil War →
educatedAt	Düsseldorf school of painting →
familyName	Johnson →
fieldOfWork	genre painting → painting → portrait painting →
genre	genre scenes → history painting → portraiture →
givenName	Eastman →
hasWorkInCollection	Brooklyn Museum → Metropolitan Museum of Art → Museum of Fine Arts, Boston → National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. → Smithsonian American Art Museum →
influencedBy	Dutch Golden Age painting → Rembrandt →
memberOf	National Academy of Design →
movement	Realism →
name	Eastman Johnson →
nationality	American →
nickname	American Rembrandt →
notableWork	A Ride for Liberty – The Fugitive Slaves → Abraham Lincoln (portrait) → Husking Bee, Island of Nantucket → Negro Life at the South → Portrait of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow → Portrait of John Quincy Adams Ward → Portrait of Nathaniel Hawthorne → Portrait of Ralph Waldo Emerson → The Boy Lincoln → The Cranberry Harvest, Island of Nantucket → The Hatch Family → The Old Stagecoach → The Pension Claim Agent → The Wounded Drummer Boy →
placeOfBirth	Lovell, Maine → United States of America →
placeOfDeath	New York → New York City → United States of America →
positionHeld	co-founder of the Metropolitan Museum of Art →
sexOrGender	male →
workLocation	Boston → Düsseldorf → New York City → Paris → The Hague → Washington, D.C. →

Referenced by (29)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
A Ride for Liberty – The Fugitive Slaves → Husking Bee, Island of Nantucket → Negro Life at the South → Old Kentucky Home → Portrait of John Quincy Adams Ward → The Boy Lincoln → The Cranberry Harvest, Island of Nantucket → The Hatch Family → The Old Stagecoach → The Pension Claim Agent → The Wounded Drummer Boy →	creator
Husking Bee, Island of Nantucket → The Cranberry Harvest, Island of Nantucket → The Hatch Family → The Pension Claim Agent → The Wounded Drummer Boy →	artist
Eastman Johnson ("Portrait of Nathaniel Hawthorne") → Eastman Johnson ("Portrait of Ralph Waldo Emerson") → Eastman Johnson ("Portrait of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow") →	notableWork
Old Kentucky Home → The Pension Claim Agent →	hasAuthor
Portrait of John Quincy Adams Ward →	creatorName
Metropolitan Museum of Art →	founder
Eastman →	hasNotableBearer
Eastman Johnson →	name
Tenth Street Studio Building →	notableResident
The Old Stagecoach →	notableWorkOf
American Rembrandt →	refersTo
The Wounded Drummer Boy →	relatedWorkCreator