Joshua Johnson

(American, 1763–1843)

Room Paintings holds two paintings by Joshua Johnson, from the Art Institute of Chicago and The Met. All of them date from 1805. We file all of them under Folk & Naive. The most common subjects are children, portraits and women. All of them suit a room in our lists, most often the hallway or entryway and staircase.

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Folk & Naive 2

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The 2 paintings

Portrait of a light-skinned woman with dark curly hair and to her right a small, blond child. Both are elegantly dressed, the woman in a dark, short-sleeved dress with gathered bodice and the child in a short-sleeved white dress.

Joshua Johnson Elizabeth Grant Bankson Beatty (Mrs. James Beatty) and Her Daughter Susan, c. 1805 Art Institute of Chicago

Emma Van Name, Joshua Johnson, ca. 1805, oil on canvasPainting

Joshua Johnson Emma Van Name, ca. 1805 The Met