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The Girl I Left Behind Me by Eastman Johnson, 1875

Academician / American / Paintings (Reproductions) - 1 year ago - troycapc

This a reproduction of Eastman Johnson’s “The Girl I Left Behind Me” of 1875.  Johnson produced this masterpiece when he was 51 years old.  He was born into a prominent family in Maine and moved with his family to Washington in 1840 when he was apprenticed to a lithographer.  Nine years later he was studying in Dusseldorf, Germany.  He continued his studies in the Netherlands and Paris before returning to America in 1855.  Four years later he established his studio in New York City.  He was a co-founder of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1870 and became famous as the American Rembrandt due to his style and having studied in the Netherlands.  He died on April 5, 1906.  This masterpiece is at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D. C.

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