Drawings March 2 - September 5, 1999

Paintings March 2, 1999 - January 2, 2000

... is sometimes spelled Johnston) was brought to Baltimore in the 1790s as a slave for a family that was related to Charles Willson Peale, the celebrated portrait painter. Within a decade Johnson became a "freeman of color" and was earning his living ...

1999-01-11

A fascinating union of more than 100 masterpieces depicting ordinary people engaged in life’s tasks and pleasures from the pre-Revolutionary era to the beginning of World War I.

Special Exhibition Galleries, 2nd floor

... In the first section (1765–1830), John Singleton Copley, Charles Willson Peale, and others tell stories within the expressive bounds of portraiture. ...