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Jervis McEntee
American 1828 -1891
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Born: |
Rondout, New York
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Died: |
Rondout, New York
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Active: |
Rondout, New York 1828-1850, 1850s New York, New York 1850-1851, 1858
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Addresses: |
Rondout New York
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Studied: |
New York City 1850-1851
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Instructors: |
Frederic Edwin Church 1850-1851
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Exhibited: |
National Academy of Design 1861-1890 Brooklyn Art Association 1862-1882, 1886 Paris Exposition 1867 Boston Art Club 1873-1891 Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts 1876-1877, 1885, 1887 Art Institute of Chicago 1880 Maryland Historical Society Boston Athenaeum Brooklyn Art Association Royal Academy, London Beacon Hill Fine Arts, NYC 1997 Royal Academy, London
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Examples of Work: |
Corcoran Gallery, Washington, DC National Academy of Design Peabody Institute, Baltimore
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Specialty: |
Painter
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Style/School: |
Hudson River School
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Subjects Known For: |
Landscapes
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Memberships: |
National Academy of Design ANA 1860; NA 1861 Century Association
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Artist Profile |
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BIOGRAPHY: |
Landscape painter Jervis McEntee was born in Rondout, New York in the Hudson River Valley, in 1828; he died in 1891, in the same community. The nearby Catskill Mountains were reflected in his paintings of rural New York St...
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Jervis McEntee studied art under Frederick Church in NYC from 1850-51 and was a member of the Hudson River School. In 1858 he opened his own studio in NYC. His works are typically small and detailed and would occasionally in...
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Jervis McEntee was one of the most sensitive artists of the Hudson River School, praised for his ability to invest landscape with understated emotion. Henry Tuckerman wrote that "McEntee is fond of rendering landscape subser...
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