JOHNSON, Horaee Chauncey, artist, born in Oxford, Connecticut, 1 February, 1820. He was educated at a preparatory school in Cheshire, Connecticut, began his art study under Albert H. Emmons, at Hartford, and afterward entered the antique school of the National academy in New York city. He went to Italy in 1856, and remaining there between two and three years, most of the time in Rome, where he was a pupil of Ferraro, and also studied in the English life school and under William Page. His professional career has been passed in Italy and in his native state, where he now resides, at Waterbury. His work has consisted chiefly of portraits. Among his other pictures are "Rolhan Mother" (1857); "Roman Peasants on the Campagna" and "Grape Gatherers of Gensano" (1858); "Italian Kitchen" and "Betrothal of Joseph and Mary" (1865); "Italian Girls at the Fountain" and "Azrael" (1885); and "Rebecca at the Well" (1886).