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John Frederick Kensett (March 22, 1816 – December 14, 1872) was an American landscape painter and engraver born in Cheshire, Connecticut. He was a member of the second generation of the Hudson River School of artists.
Artist: John Frederick Kensett (American, Cheshire, Connecticut 1816–1872 New York) Date: 1872 Medium: Oil on canvas Dimensions: 18 x 36 in. (45.7 x 91.4 cm) Classification: Paintings Credit Line: Gift of Thomas Kensett, 1874
John Frederick Kensett (1816–1872) Mount Washington from the Valley of Conway In 1851, John Frederick Kensett (1816–1872) produced a large canvas, 40 by 60 inches (1.0 m × 1.5 m), of Mount Washington that has become one of the best and finest later examples of White Mountain art.
Thomas Cole (1801–1848), The Oxbow, View from Mount Holyoke, Northampton, Massachusetts, after a Thunderstorm (1836), Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Hudson River School was a mid-19th-century American art movement embodied by a group of landscape painters whose aesthetic vision was influenced by Romanticism.
Picturesque America was a two-volume set of books describing and illustrating the scenery of America, which grew out of an earlier series in Appleton's Journal.It was published by D. Appleton and Company of New York in 1872 and 1874 and edited by the romantic poet and journalist William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878), who also edited the New York Evening Post.
Kensett may refer to: John Frederick Kensett (1816–1872), American artist and engraver; Thomas Kensett (1786–1829), American engraver; Kensett, Arkansas, United States; Kensett, Iowa, United States
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Kensett frequently visited Lake George in the Adirondacks and painted many studies of the area, but Lake George is his largest and most accomplished treatment of the subject. His viewpoint was probably from Crown Island, off Bolton Landing on the west shore, looking across the lake northeast toward the Narrows.