Portrait of Mrs. Jeremiah Chandler
Eastman Johnson
1847
Medium
Graphite, heightened with white chalk, on brown wove paper
Dimensions
21.6 × 16.3 cm (8 9/16 × 6 7/16 in.)
Classification
prints and drawing
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
186429
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...