John Joseph Enneking
American, 1841 - 1916
(not assigned)Massachusetts
Biography(b Minster, OH, 4 Oct 1841; d Hyde Park, nr Boston, MA, 17 Nov 1916). American painter. He received his first art instruction in Cincinnati, OH. He moved in 1865 to Boston, MA, where he received further instruction while earning his livelihood in business. In 1873 he determined to make art his full-time profession and spent the following three years in Europe, studying for nine months in Munich and for two years in Paris with Charles-François Daubigny and Léon Bonnat. Settling in Hyde Park, MA, in 1876, he established himself as a landscape painter of picturesque New England scenery and of hazy winter twilight scenes. He occasionally painted genre subjects and was especially noted for his large-scale and sympathetic portrayals of children and the elderly, as can be seen, for example, in Removing a Splinter (1894; New York, Arden priv. col.)
Enneking had his first major success when a large exhibition of his pictures was held in Boston in 1878. The sale of these paintings launched him as one of the most popular landscape painters in New England. While his early landscapes reflect the influence of his Barbizon training, his later images of brightly coloured, sunlit scenes reveal the influence of American Impressionist artists such as Theodore Robinson and John H. Twachtman. (Source: LEE M. EDWARDS, "John Joseph Enneking," The Grove Dictionary of Art Online (Oxford University Press) Accessed February 9,2004) http://www.groveart.com
Person TypeIndividual
Terms
- male
French, 1824 - 1898