# Emma Van Name, in Joshua Johnson

Joshua Johnson painted this in about 1805, aged 47. It is now at The Met in New York.

Our note:

> A small girl in a white dress poses with a goblet and strawberries, painted by Joshua Johnson of Baltimore around 1805. Johnson, among the earliest known professional portrait painters of African descent in the United States, advertised himself as self-taught and worked for the merchant families of Maryland.

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## The work

- Date: ca. 1805
- Medium: Oil on canvasPainting
- Dimensions: 29 × 23 in. (73.7 × 58.4 cm)
- Type: Painting
- Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2016.116
- 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.

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