Johnson, Harry John (1826 – 1884) – East Sussex; Sunset at ‘Seaford’.

Johnson was a pupil of William James Muller (1812-1845), with whom he went to Asia Minor in 1843. He went on to travel widely himself, in Southern Europe and North Africa. His exhibits at the Royal Academy are all of far-flung places, and while he did make paintings of British subjects, there are far less of them. His travel pictures usually depict architecture or topography set against dramatic skies, relying on the latter to give them a feeling of the exotic. In Sussex he has found a sky as beautiful as any he would have found on his distant wanderings.