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John Frederick Kensett (1816 - 1872)
Oil on canvas
18⅛ x 24 inches
Initialed and indistinctly dated lower left: JFK
18⅛ x 24 inches
Initialed and indistinctly dated lower left: JFK
Provenance
The artist
American Art-Union, New York, New York, acquired from above, 1849
Z. C. Ladd, Boston, Massachusetts, acquired from above, 1849
Hirschl & Adler Galleries Inc., New York, New York
Private collection, acquired from above, 1964
Sale, Sotheby’s, New York, New York, January 18, 2024, lot 1, from above
Exhibited
American Art-Union, New York, New York, October–December 1849
Literature
Mary Bartlett Cowdrey, American Academy of Fine Arts and American Art-Union, Exhibition Records 1816–1852 (New York: The New-York Historical Society, 1953), 213, no. 99.
John Paul Driscoll and John K. Howat, John Frederick Kensett: An American Master (Worcester, MA: Worcester Art Museum, 1985), 61, fig. 29.
Available work by John Frederick Kensett
River View with Mountains
Wooded Landscape with Boulders
Mount Chocorua
New England Coastal Scene with Figures



