Professor Lee Frederick Johnson (7 September 1924 – 6 July 2006) was an art historian and specialist in the works of the French nineteenth-century painter Eugène Delacroix.
During this period, he fortuitously discovered four unattributed Delacroix decorative paintings in the town house of François-Joseph Talma in Paris.
[1] [2] In 1954 Johnson wrote a five-page piece in The Burlington Magazine about the exhibitions in London and Dublin of Géricault's The Raft of the Medusa.
The director of the gallery noted in the preface that the catalogue contained a "considerable amount of material which not only appears for the first time but also corrects previous errors."
[2] University of Glasgow art historian Ronald Pickvance, commenting on the work of Lee Johnson, said "The way we comprehend Delacroix will never be the same because of the contribution he has made.