John R. Johnston (March 10, 1826 – July 29, 1895) was an American panoramic painter, photographer, and photographic colorist known for his landscape paintings. He has painted many portraits of well-known people, specifically one of Franklin Pierce and one of Andrew Jackson in 1863. Johnston's landscapes were influenced by the Hudson River School. He assisted artists Samuel B. Stockwell and Henry Lewis with their panoramas in the late 1840s. In 1848 he collaborated with Edwin F. Durang on a biblical-themed panorama which was twelve feet wide and 1800 feet long. Johnston toured with this panorama to Louisville and Philadelphia and would deliver speeches on biblical topics along with its showing. Johnston moved to Baltimore, Maryland in 1856 and worked as both a portrait artist and a photographic colorist. He worked with wet collodion negatives on salted paper. One of his prints from 1857 i...
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