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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
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.
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.
Along with John Frederick Kensett and John William Casilear, he was best known for the development of Luminism. John Frederick Kensett: More images: 22 March 1816 14 December 1872 Kensett is best known for his landscapes of upstate New York and New England and seascapes of coastal New Jersey, Long Island and New England. Charles Wilson Knapp ...
Among the most notable artists who have painted in the White Mountains was John Frederick Kensett (1816–1872). A painter of the Hudson River School, his Mount Chocorua (1864–1866) typifies American Luminism.
John Frederick Kensett (1816–1872), American : Beacon Rock, Newport Harbor, oil on canvas, ID: 1953.1.1 Jan van Kessel, senior (1626–1679), Flemish : Study of Butterfly and Insects , oil on copper, ID: 1983.19.3
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