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This painting depicts three individuals in a room. An elderly man is seated on a wooden chair, reading a newspaper, with a child standing beside him. The man has balding gray hair, round spectacles, and is dressed in a black suit. The child, wearing a bright blue coat and hat, faces the man with their back toward us. They have short blond hair that falls to their shoulders in soft ringlets. The man looks down at the child with a slight smile. On the right, a woman in a black dress sits on another chair, knitting. She looks up toward the man and child. All three of these people have light…

The Brown Family

Eastman Johnson (American, 1824 - 1906)

1869 · oil on paper on canvas

National Gallery of Art · Gift of David Edward Finley and Margaret Eustis Finley

Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0)

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