# The Westwood Children, in Joshua Johnson's contemporaries

Joshua Johnson painted this in about 1807, aged 49. It is now at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC.

Our note:

> Three boys in matching green suits with wide ruffled collars stand hand in hand: one holds a sprig of cherries, the middle child a rose, and the eldest a basket of roses. At their feet a black dog carries a bird in its mouth, and a window opens onto a slender tree and distant pink-grey hills.

[Read the full label](https://www.ochreeditions.com/art/the-westwood-children-nga-45955#about-work)

## The work

- Date: c. 1807
- Medium: oil on canvas
- Dimensions: overall: 104.5 x 117 cm (41 1/8 x 46 1/16 in.)
- Type: Painting
- Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1959.11.1
- Licence: CC0 1.0

## The artist

[Joshua Johnson](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/joshua-johnson), American, ca. 1763–ca. 1824

2 works in the collection.

## Walk on

- [A contemporary: Thomas Sully](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/artist/thomas-sully?hang=749) (7 works)
- [More American colonial and Federal art](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/style/american-colonial-and-federal?hang=749) (29 works)
- [19th-century United States](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/era/19-united-states?hang=749) (198 works)

## Get it

- [Print this work](https://www.ochreeditions.com/art/the-westwood-children-nga-45955#print)
- Free download, full resolution: https://img.ochreeditions.com/m/1510.jpg?dl=1
- [The work's page](https://www.ochreeditions.com/art/the-westwood-children-nga-45955)