Abraham Lincoln
Thomas Johnson
after 1864
Medium
Graphic Arts-Print
Classification
Graphic Arts-Print
Department
Smithsonian Collection
Museum
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Credit
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Olin Dows
Accession Number
1979.136.92
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
presidentbust
About the Artist
Thomas Johnson · 1714–1778
**Thomas Johnson (1714–1778)** was an English wood carver and furniture maker renowned for his exuberant Rococo designs that blended rococo, Chinese, Gothic, and rustic motifs with remarkable vitality and flamboyance. Working primarily in London during the mid-eighteenth century, he became one of the most successful and distinctive exponents of the British Rococo style, often incorporating human f...