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Lewis Einstein

Eastman Johnson American
1882
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 774
Lewis Einstein (1877–1967), son of David and Caroline Einstein, was born in New York on March 15, 1877. He graduated from Columbia College in 1898, and was awarded a master's degree the following year. In 1903, he met Oliver Wendell Holmes, then sixty-one. For the next thirty-two years, they corresponded. Einstein served in American embassies in Paris, London, Constantinople, and Peking. He was also posted in Costa Rica and Bulgaria, and was appointed as the first United States minister to Czechoslovakia. As a result of this service, he received international recognition. He was a prolific writer. This portrait represents Einstein at the age of five, standing in the Japanese room of his father's house at 29 West 57th Street, New York. Johnson also painted a portrait of the sitter's sister that was probably intended as a companion piece and is now privately owned.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title:
    Lewis Einstein
  • Artist:
    Eastman Johnson (American, Lovell, Maine 1824–1906 New York)
  • Date:
    1882
  • Culture:
    American
  • Medium:
    Oil on canvas
  • Dimensions:
    54 x 40 in. (137.2 x 101.6 cm)
  • Credit Line:
    Gift of the Honorable Lewis Einstein, 1947
  • Object Number:
    47.128
  • Curatorial Department: The American Wing

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