Eastman Johnson

Eastman Johnson is one of America's utmost genre painters whose painters of vintage dwellings in the south, maple-syrup gatherers, maize huskers, and cranberry pickers are amidst the most well renowned icons in American mid-19th Century painting. (Boman: 58) His central investigations of persons round an oven and of juvenile women picking blossoms or standing in an area or daydreaming by a window are of a very high standard. Johnson furthermore is well renowned for Civil War topics for example "The Wounded Drummer Boy" and some of his paintings of juvenile young children, for example "The Old Stagecoach" and "In the Hayloft" are masterpieces.

 

Lot 87, "The Little Soldier," is a little oil on board that assesses 14 1/2 by 11 1/2 inches. It was decorated in 1864 and is a scenic and charming study that has an approximate of $400,000 to $600,000. It traded for $856,000, more than three times what it fetched at auction a couple of years ago. (Davis: 67)

Lot 87, "The Little Soldier," by Eastman Johnson, oil on board, 14 1/2 by 11 1/2 inches, 1864

 

 

In the years following his wedding ceremony in 1869, Johnson expanded his subject issue to encompass individual household imagery of his wife and juvenile daughter. In 1870, he started to discover a new kind of country genre and rustic interiors, motivated by topics on the island of Nantucket, where he expended a part of each year. Aware of the junior lifetime of realists coming back from study in Europe, he certainly made efforts to revise his own style. (Carbone: 123)

After 1880, Johnson decorated less genre topics, and dedicated his power mainly to prescribed portrait charges, for which he was in large demand. By the time of his death in 1906, Johnson was amidst a very little assembly of American creative individuals who ...