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Joshua Johnson, active between 1796 and 1824, is believed to be the first professional African-American painter. Largely self-taught, he was likely aware of C. W. Peale's work in Baltimore, but developed his own style of colorful patterns and clearly outlined figures, exemplified in The Westwood Children, ca. 1807. hide information

Joshua Johnson, active between 1796 and 1824, is believed to be the first professional African-American painter. Largely self-taught, he was likely aware of C. W. Peale's work in Baltimore, but developed his own style of colorful patterns and clearly outlined figures, exemplified in The Westwood Children, ca. 1807. This stamp was issued by the United States Postal Service on August 27, 1998 as part of the Four Centuries of American Art Issue series .