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The young woman in this picture called The Girl I Left Behind Me by Eastman Johnson may be the most passionate portrayal in all nineteenth-century American art. It is even more openly romantic than Winslow Homer's pictures of women. Everything about her is animated by an inner intensity. She combines the majesty of a classical statue with the mood of a tragic heroine.
 
Who is she and what inspired Johnson to paint her?

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