Description: Antique lithograph print : " The Barefoot Boy " " After Eastman Johnson's celebrated Oil Painting " Attached to thick board. 10 1/8" x 13 1/4" Published by Webb Brothers & Co., Providence , Rhode Island Undated ; circa 1870. Based on the poem by John Greenleaf Whittier (1807 -1892), one of the most popular American poets in the United States in the second half of the 19th century. Artist Jonathan Eastman Johnson (1824 -1906) was an American painter and co-founder of the Metropolitan Museum of Art , New York City ; his name is inscribed at its entrance. Johnson was best known for his genre paintings, paintings of scenes from everyday life, and his portraits both of everyday people and prominent Americans such as Abraham Lincoln , Nathaniel Hawthorne , Ralph Waldo Emerson , and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. In his day, Johnson was known as " The American Rembrandt ." ------- Condition. As-seen in the photos. Some fading. The board is somewhat warped however it will mostly flatten if this print is tightly framed. About 150+ years old. Carefully packed for shipment to the buyer.
Price: 29 USD
Location: Coventry, Rhode Island
End Time: 2025-01-11T17:13:36.000Z
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Artist: Eastman Johnson
Image Orientation: Portrait
Item Length: 10 in
Framing: Unframed
Original/Licensed Reprint: Original
Subject: American Boy, Boys
Type: Print
Item Height: 13 in
Theme: Americana, Nature, People, Boys
Style: Illustration Art
Production Technique: Chromolithograph
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Time Period Produced: 1850-1899
Farm Homestead: Country Boy