1. Jervis McEntee was an American painter of the Hudson River School.
10 Facts About Jervis McEntee
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Jervis McEntee is a lesser-known figure of the 19th-century American art world, but was a close friend and traveling companion of several of the important Hudson River School artists.
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Jervis McEntee exhibited his first painting as a self-taught artist at the National Academy of Design in New York City in 1850.
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Jervis McEntee left Church's studio in 1851, and while he never achieved Church's level of fame and fortune, they remained lifelong friends.
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Jervis McEntee was a particularly close friend of Hudson River School artists Sanford Robinson Gifford, Worthington Whittredge, John Ferguson Weir, as well as figurative painter Eastman Johnson.
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Jervis McEntee was made an associate of the National Academy of Design in 1860, and a full academician in 1861.
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Jervis McEntee died of Bright's disease at his home in Rondout on January 27,1891, and is buried in Montrepose Cemetery in Kingston, New York.
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The landscapes of Jervis McEntee are known for their melancholy and poetic mood.
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Jervis McEntee discusses his artistic successes and trials, particularly as money becomes more scarce with the decline in popularity of Hudson River School art.
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Jervis McEntee's journals are now kept by the Archives of American Art, a research center within the Smithsonian Institution.