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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Frederick Kensett has received more than 152,522 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). John Frederick Kensett is the 628th most popular painter (up from 1,000th in 2019), the 1,962nd most popular biography from United States (up from 3,468th in 2019) and the 20th most popular American Painter.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, John Frederick Kensett ranks 628 out of 2,023. Before him are Nicolas de Staël, Tom Wesselmann, Ambrosius Bosschaert, Jean-Baptiste Isabey, Otto van Veen, and Domenico Fetti. After him are Francisco Pacheco, Nicolaes Maes, Pierre-Paul Prud'hon, Palma il Giovane, Lippo Memmi, and Agnolo Gaddi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1816, John Frederick Kensett ranks 12. Before him are Maria Theresa of Austria, Paul Reuter, Ferdinand II of Portugal, Abbas I of Egypt, Carl Ludwig, and Franz Sacher. After him are 10th Dalai Lama, Charles-Eugène Delaunay, Antoine Béchamp, Gustav Freytag, Paul Féval, père, and Giovanni Morelli. Among people deceased in 1872, John Frederick Kensett ranks 22. Before him are Zeng Guofan, Mary Somerville, Kawakami Gensai, George Robert Gray, Prince Albert of Prussia, and Princess Feodora of Leiningen. After him are Vladimir Dal, William H. Seward, Charles-Eugène Delaunay, Johan Rudolph Thorbecke, John Bowring, and Handrij Zejler.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, John Frederick Kensett ranks 1,962 out of 20,380. Before him are Paul Schrader (1946), Howard S. Becker (1928), Kevin Mitnick (1963), Fred Phelps (1929), Gigi Hadid (1995), and Isaac Hayes (1942). After him are Henry Molaison (1926), Tucker Carlson (1969), Neilia Hunter Biden (1942), Pontiac (1714), Leonard Bloomfield (1887), and Clarissa Pinkola Estés (1945).

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Among PAINTERS In United States

Among painters born in United States, John Frederick Kensett ranks 20. Before him are Lyonel Feininger (1871), Sol LeWitt (1928), Margaret Keane (1927), Jasper Johns (1930), Frank Stella (1936), and Carl Andre (1935). After him are Thomas Eakins (1844), Cy Twombly (1928), Julian Schnabel (1951), Bruce Nauman (1941), Donald Judd (1928), and Cindy Sherman (1954).

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