Oliver Cromwell
Thomas Johnson
1900
Classification
portraits
Department
Smithsonian Collection
Museum
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Credit
Gift of F. Elizabeth De Voy
Accession Number
1957-58-41
Rights
Public Domain
About this artwork
Research in Progress
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...