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John Frederick Kensett
Born 22 March 1816, Cheshire, Connecticut
Died 14 December 1872, New York City
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Kensett began his career as an engraver, but took up oil painting in his mid-twenties. A seven-year stay in Europe provided him with the foundations of his art. The paintings he sent home laid the foundation for his near-instant success when he returned to America in 1847. During the early 1850s he made summer drawing trips to the mountains of the Northeast, including the Catskills, the Adirondacks and the White Mountains, which provided him with the material for significant paintings such as A Reminiscence of the White Mountains, 1852. He became particularly interested in the effects of light on water, and much of his later life was occupied with painting seascapes. His death in 1872 was brought on by pneumonia contracted after trying to retrieve the body of a drowned man.
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