词条 | Kensett, John Frederick |
释义 | Kensett, John Frederick American painter born March 22, 1816, Cheshire, Connecticut, U.S. died December 14, 1872, New York, New York American landscape painter, the leader of the second generation of the Hudson River school artists. Kensett was trained as an engraver by his father, Thomas Kensett, and his uncle, Alfred Daggett, a banknote engraver. In 1838 Kensett went to New York City to work for a banknote company. Two years later, together with Asher B. Durand (Durand, Asher B), John W. Casilear, and Thomas P. Rossiter, he went to Europe, where, in the tradition of artists of his generation, he received his artistic education by traveling, looking at pictures, and visiting leading artists in their studios. By the time Kensett returned to the United States in 1847, he had established a reputation based on paintings he had sent from Europe. In 1849 he was elected to the National Academy of Design, and he was a founder of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. ![]() Additional Reading John Paul Driscoll and John K. Howart, John Frederick Kensett: An American Master (1985). |
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