Photographs of drawings of Native Americans, 1857.

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Photographs of drawings of Native Americans, 1857.

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Photograph copies of charcoal drawings and oil paint sketches by Eastman Johnson of Chippewa Indians, a bark wigwam, a view of Superior, Wis., two views of Grand Portage, Minn., and one of William H. Newton, Johnson's brother-in-law and early Superior, Wis. settler, all made in 1857. The drawings show mainly portrait heads, with occasional figure studies, and one group in a canoe.

34 photographs (1 folder)

Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project

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SNAC Resource ID: 6924081

Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project

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Newton, William Henry.

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Johnson, Eastman, 1824-1906

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American painter and printmaker Jonathan Eastman Johnson was born in Lovell, Maine in 1824. After apprenticing with a Boston lithographer, he moved to Washington D.C. in 1845 and became a portraitist of prominent Americans, including Daniel Webster and Dolly Madison. Beginning in 1849, Johnson spent two years at the Royal Academy in Dusseldorf, Germany, studying with Emanuel Leutze, and three years at The Hague. After returning to America in 1855, he settled in New York and focused on painting A...