The Funding Bill
Eastman Johnson
1881
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
60 1/2 x 78 1/4 in. (153.7 x 198.8 cm)
Classification
Painting
Culture
American
Department
The American Wing
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, Robert Gordon Gift, 1898
Accession Number
98.14
Tags
MenPortraits
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...