Portrait of a Young Man
Eastman Johnson
1801 to 1825
Medium
black and white chalk
Dimensions
sheet: 28.2 × 25.7 cm (11 1/8 × 10 1/8 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of William T. Hassett, Jr.
Accession Number
1972.76.1
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...