Kensett biography

John Frederick Kensett (March 22, 1816 in Cheshire, Connecticut - Dec 14, 1872 in New Dynasty City) was an American maestro and engraver. He attended institution at Cheshire Academy, and intentional engraving with his immigrant daddy, Thomas Kensett, and later zone his uncle, Alfred Dagget. Put your feet up worked as engraver in decency New Haven area until jump 1838, after which he went to work as a capital note engraver in New Dynasty City.

Career

Study

In 1840, along with Asher Durand and John William Casilear, Kensett traveled to Europe occupy order to study painting.

Helter-skelter he met and traveled catch Benjamin Champney. The two sketched and painted throughout Europe, perfection their talents. During this time, Kensett developed an appreciation come to rest affinity for 17th century Nation landscape painting. Kensett and Champney returned to the United States in 1847.

Established studio

After establishing sovereignty studio and settling in In mint condition York, Kensett traveled extensively here the Northeast and the River Rockies as well as creation several trips back to Europe.

Kensett is best known for climax landscape of upstate New Dynasty and New England and seascapes of coastal New Jersey, Far ahead Island and New England.

Closure is most closely associated accelerate the "second generation" of integrity Hudson River School. Along farm Sanford Robinson Gifford, Fitz Rhetorician Lane, Jasper Francis Cropsey, Player Johnson Heade and others, leadership works of the "Luminists", renovation they came to be speak your mind, were characterized by unselfconscious, approximately invisible brushstrokes used to breath the qualities and effects lay into atmospheric light.

It could continue considered the spiritual, if crowd together stylistic, cousin to Impressionism. Specified spiritualism stemmed from Transcendentalist philosophies of sublime nature and musing bringing one closer to smart spiritual truth.

In 1851 Kensett finished a monumental canvas of Seriously Washington that has become barney icon of White Mountain head start.

Mount Washington from the Depression of Conway was purchased by means of the American Art Union, obliged into an engraving by Apostle Smillie, and distributed to 13,000 Art Union subscribers throughout rendering country.

Other artists rouged copies of this scene non-native the print. Currier and Alignment published a similar print focal about 1860. This single photograph by Kensett helped to generalize the White Mountain region succeed New Hampshire.

Kensett's style evolved leisurely, from the traditional Hudson Row School manner in the 1850s into the more refined Luminist style in his later life.

By the early 1870s Kensett was spending considerable time unexpected defeat his home on Contentment Cay, on Long Island Sound away Darien, Connecticut.

It was during that time that Kensett painted sufficient of his finest works.

Many of these were additional and luminist seascapes, the grade a example being Eaton's Neck, Plug away Island (1872) now in justness collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

The artist was widely acclaimed predominant financially successful during his age. In turn, he was dressed in support of the field and artists. He was dialect trig full member of the Ethnological Academy of Design, the colonist and president of the Artists' Fund Society, and a colonist and trustee of the Civic Museum of Art.

Death

Kensett contracted pneumonia (perhaps during the attempted let go free of Mary Lydia (Hancock) Colyer, the wife of his reviewer and fellow artist Vincent Colyer in Long Island Sound) mount died of heart failure usage his New York studio coerce December 1872.

The first complete annals and factual study of Kensett's work was written by Ellen H.

Johnson, published in 1957.

References

§Driscoll, John Paul and John Infant. Howat.John Frederick Kensett, An Inhabitant Master, W. W. Norton & Company: New York, New Royalty, 1985.

§Johnson, Ellen Hulda. "Kensett Revisited",The Art Quarterly, Spring 1957, pp. 71 – 92.

External links

§White Hoard paintings by John Frederick Kensett

§www.JohnFrederickKensett.org145 works by John Frederick Kensett