Grover Cleveland
by 1891
Medium
Oil on cardboard
Dimensions
10 1/2 x 8 3/4 in. (26.7 x 22.2 cm)
Classification
Painting
Culture
American
Department
The American Wing
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Fletcher Fund, 1941
Accession Number
41.125
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About this artwork
Eastman Johnson's portrait of Grover Cleveland, painted in April 1891, captures America's only president to serve two non-consecutive terms (1885–1889 and 1893–1897). Johnson (1824–1906) was among America's most accomplished portraitists, and during the 1880s and 1890s he painted businessmen, lawyers, university presidents, and three U.S. presidents from life. This oil on canvas portrait shows Cleveland in the interval between his presidencies, a period of private legal practice before his succe...
About the Artist
Eastman Johnson · 1824–1906
Eastman Johnson (1824–1906) was an American painter known as "the American Rembrandt" for his richly toned genre paintings and portraits that constitute one of the most important visual records of nineteenth-century American life. Born in Lovell, Maine, he trained in Düsseldorf, The Hague — where he studied the Dutch Old Masters extensively — and Paris before returning to the United States. Johns...