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John Frederick Kensett

1816 - 1872

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John Frederick Kensett (March 22, 1816 – December 14, 1872) was an American landscape painter and engraver born in Cheshire, Connecticut. He was a member of the second generation of the Hudson River School of artists. Kensett's signature works are landscape paintings of New England and New York State, whose clear light and serene surfaces celebrate transcendental qualities of nature, and are associated with Luminism. Kensett's early work owed much to the influence of Thomas Cole, but was from the outset distinguished by a preference for cooler colors and an interest in less dramatic topography, favoring restraint in both palette and composition. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. John Frederick Kensett is the 1,788th most popular painter (down from 628th in 2019), the 7,836th most popular biography from United States (down from 1,962nd in 2019) and the 92nd most popular American Painter.

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Among painters, John Frederick Kensett ranks 1,788 out of 2,023. Before him are Helena Almeida, Peter Scott, Viktor Madarász, Ulrika Pasch, Ben Nicholson, and Ion Andreescu. After him are Katherine Sophie Dreier, Guity Novin, Christen Dalsgaard, Betzy Akersloot-Berg, Tracey Emin, and Roger Dean.

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Among people born in 1816, John Frederick Kensett ranks 52. Before him are Andrei Mureșanu, C. A. Rosetti, August Wilhelm Ambros, Richard Leach Maddox, Filippo Parlatore, and Ivan Kukuljević Sakcinski. After him are Jacob van Zuylen van Nijevelt, Johan Sverdrup, Priscilla Cooper Tyler, Morrison Waite, Manuel Murillo Toro, and Elihu B. Washburne. Among people deceased in 1872, John Frederick Kensett ranks 63. Before him are William Davies Evans, Pierre Charles Fournier de Saint-Amant, Benjamin Briggs, Nikolaos Mantzaros, Bedros Tourian, and Frederik Kaiser. After him are Nikolay Milyutin, Robert Wight, Richard S. Ewell, Charles Combes, Agustín Morales, and Lowell Mason.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, John Frederick Kensett ranks 7,838 out of 20,380. Before him are Lori Singer (1957), Ollie Johnston (1912), Vanessa Marcil (1968), Darleane C. Hoffman (1926), Gardiner Greene Hubbard (1822), and Larry Graham (1946). After him are Katherine Sophie Dreier (1877), Verna Bloom (1938), Earl Tupper (1907), Bob Lazar (1959), Candace Bushnell (1958), and Frederick Terman (1900).

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Among PAINTERS In United States

Among painters born in United States, John Frederick Kensett ranks 92. Before him are Alice Neel (1900), Ad Reinhardt (1913), Morris Louis (1912), Charles Willson Peale (1741), Frederic Remington (1861), and Washington Allston (1779). After him are Katherine Sophie Dreier (1877), Charles Dana Gibson (1867), Theodore Robinson (1852), Lawrence Weiner (1942), John Marin (1870), and Thomas Hart Benton (1889).

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