Johnson, Eastman (1824-1906)

US painter. Born in Germany, he trained in Düsseldorf, The Hague, and Paris. Painting in the open air, he developed a fresh and luminous landscape style.

He studied art at Düsseldorf and worked for some years as a young man at The Hague. Returning to America 1855 he painted some scenes of American Indian and frontier life in Wisconsin, made drawings of the Union Army during the Civil War and settled in New York, as a portrait painter mainly, though also painting genre scenes of American life.

Johnson had his first success with a nostalgic naturalist scene, Old Kentucky Home 1859 (New York Historical Society).