EASTMAN

JOHNSON (1824–1906)  , American artist, was born at Lovell, Maine, on the 29th of July 1824 . He studied at Dusseldorf, Paris, Rome and The Hague, the last city being his home for four years . In 186o he was elected to the National Academy of Design, New York . A distinguished portrait and genre painter, he made distinctively American themes his own, depicting the negro, fisherfolk and farm life with unusual interest . Such pictures as " Old Kentucky Home " (1867), " Husking Bee " (1876), " Cranberry Harvest, Nantucket " (188o), and his portrait group " The Funding Bill " (1881) achieved a national reputation . Among his sitters were many prominent men, including Daniel Webster; Presidents Hayes, Arthur, Cleveland and Harrison; William M . Evarts, Charles J . Folger; Emerson, Longfellow, Hawthorne, James McCosh, Noah Porter and Sir Edward Archbald . He died in New York City on the 5th of April 1906 .