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…

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The Brown Family

Eastman Johnson (American, 1824 - 1906)

1869

Medium: oil on paper on canvas
Classification: Painting
Dimensions: overall: 59 x 72.4 cm (23 1/4 x 28 1/2 in.) ; framed: 84.77 × 98.74 × 13.02 cm (33 3/8 × 38 7/8 × 5 1/8 in.)
Culture: American
Museum: National Gallery of Art, CAB
Credit line: Gift of David Edward Finley and Margaret Eustis Finley
Rights: Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed

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