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John R. Johnston
John R. Johnston (March 10, 1826 – July 29, 1895) was an American Moving panorama, panoramic painter, photographer, and photographic colorist known for his landscape paintings. He has painted many portraits of well-known people, specifically one of Franklin Pierce and one of Andrew Jackson in 1863. Johnston's landscapes were influenced by the Hudson River School. He assisted artists Samuel B. Stockwell and Henry Lewis (artist), Henry Lewis with their panoramas in the late 1840s. In 1848 he collaborated with Edwin Forrest Durang, Edwin F. Durang on a biblical-themed panorama which was twelve feet wide and 1800 feet long. Johnston toured with this panorama to Louisville and Philadelphia and would deliver speeches on biblical topics along with its showing. Johnston moved to Baltimore, Maryland in 1856 and worked as both a portrait artist and a photographic colorist. He worked with wet collodion negatives on salted paper. One of his prints from 1857 is titled ''Dr. Kane’ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cincinnati
Cincinnati ( ) is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Hamilton County. Settled in 1788, the city is located at the northern side of the confluence of the Licking and Ohio rivers, the latter of which marks the state line with Kentucky. The city is the economic and cultural hub of the Cincinnati metropolitan area. With an estimated population of 2,256,884, it is Ohio's largest metropolitan area and the nation's 30th-largest, and with a city population of 309,317, Cincinnati is the third-largest city in Ohio and 64th in the United States. Throughout much of the 19th century, it was among the top 10 U.S. cities by population, surpassed only by New Orleans and the older, established settlements of the United States eastern seaboard, as well as being the sixth-most populous city from 1840 until 1860. As a rivertown crossroads at the junction of the North, South, East, and West, Cincinnati developed with fewer immigrants and less influence from Europe than Ea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
