Artists

Eastman Johnson (July 29, 1824 – April 5, 1906) was an American painter, and Co-Founder of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, with his name inscribed at its entrance. Best known for his genre paintings, paintings of scenes from everyday life, and his portraits both of everyday people, he also painted portraits of prominent Americans...

Frederick E. James (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1845 – Percé, Quebec, 17 July 1907) was an American artist. He was noted for his depictions of 18th-century American life. James trained first at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and later under the famed French artist Jean-Léon Gérôme. Portraits by him of Benjamin Franklin, Stephen...

Charles Wesley Jarvis, the second son of the portrait painter John Wesley Jarvis, was born in New York City. His mother died the following year, and he and an older brother, John, were raised by her relatives on Long Island. Jarvis' father spent many years away from home working as an itinerant painter. Jarvis apparently received his earliest...

A painter of portraits, landscapes, and works of genre, or scenes of everyday life, William Smith Jewett became California’s first resident professional artist. Jewett was born near South Dover, New York, and he studied at New York City’s prestigious National Academy of Design. He established a portrait-painting practice in New York in 1833; in...

Frank Tenney Johnson (26 June 1874–1 January 1939) was a painter of the american west, and he popularized a style of painting cowboys which became known as "The Johnson Moonlight Technique". Somewhere on the Range is an example of Johnson's moonlight technique. To paint his paintings he used knives, fingers and brushes. Biography Early...