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. Object Type: painting. Date: 1887. Place of creation: France. Dimensions: height: 59 cm (23.2 in); width: 80.5 cm (31.6 in);; framed: 88.3 × 109.9 × 6.4 cm (34.7 × 43.2 × 2.5 in). Medium: oil on panel. Collection: Walters Art Museum. Eastman Johnson - The Nantucket School of Philosophy - Walters 37311
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