John Frederick Kensett was an Americanlandscape painter and engraver born in Cheshire, Connecticut.
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10 Facts About John Kensett
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John Kensett worked as an engraver in the New Haven area until about 1838, then went to work as a banknote engraver in New York City.
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John Kensett is best known for his landscape of upstate New York and New England and seascapes of coastal New Jersey, Long Island, and New England.
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John Kensett is most closely associated with the "second generation" of the Hudson River School.
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In 1851 John Kensett painted a monumental canvas of Mount Washington that has become an icon of White Mountain art.
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John Kensett's style evolved gradually, from the traditional Hudson River School manner in the 1850s into the more refined Luminist style in his later years.
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John Kensett was a full member of the National Academy of Design, the founder and president of the Artists' Fund Society, and a founder and trustee of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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John Kensett contracted pneumonia and died of heart failure at his New York studio in December 1872.
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