English: Like a number of his fellow genre painters, the Boston artist Eastman Johnson trained abroad in Düsseldorf and later at The Hague, where he became familiar with Dutch 17th-century art. Between 1870 and 1887, Johnson spent the summer and autumn months working in Nantucket. In this work, his last dated genre painting, a number of elderly men, seated around a stove in a cobbler's shop, reminisce about the past. Two years after the picture was completed, Johnson identified the philosophers: Captain Haggerty, the shoemaker; Captain Moore, the talker; and, on the left-hand side leaning on his hand, Captain Ray. The other captains, he noted, were already dead.
Revisiting the White City: American Art at the 1893 World's Fair. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington. 1993. Eastman Johnson: Painting America. Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn; San Diego Museum Of Art, San Diego; Seattle Art Museum, Seattle. 1999-2000. The American Artist as Painter and Draftsman. The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore. 2001.
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