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Eastman (Jonathan) Johnson ( July 29 , 1824 - April 5 , 1906 ) was an American painter. 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 such as Abraham Lincoln , Nathaniel Hawthorne , Ralph Waldo Emerson , and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow . His later works often show the influence of the 17th century Dutch masters whom he studied while living in The Hague , and he was even known as ''The American Rembrandt'' in his day.1

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Johnson was born in Lovell, Maine , the eighth and last child of Philip Carrigan Johnson and Mary Kimball Chandler. His eldest brother Rear Admiral Philip Carrigan Johnson Jr. (father of Vice Admiral Alfred Wilkinson Johnson ) was followed by his beloved sisters Harriet, Judith, Mary, Sarah, Nell and his brother Reuben. Eastman grew up in Fryeburg and Augusta , where the family lived at Pleasant Street and later at 61 Winthrop Street. 2