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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 144,433 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). John Frederick Kensett is the 1,001st most popular painter (up from 1,385th in 2019), the 3,478th most popular biography from United States (up from 8,336th in 2019) and the 40th most popular American Painter.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, John Frederick Kensett ranks 1,001 out of 1,421Before him are Ludwig Richter, Hans von Kulmbach, Jan Wildens, Corneille Guillaume Beverloo, Il Pordenone, and Arthur Hughes. After him are Prospero Fontana, Cornelis de Vos, Adriaen van de Venne, Caspar van Wittel, Othon Friesz, and François-Auguste Biard.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1816, John Frederick Kensett ranks 22Before him are Charles-Eugène Delaunay, Paul Féval, père, Antoine François Marmontel, Rudolf Wolf, Charles-Denis Bourbaki, and Ferdinand Ritter von Hebra. After him are Malwida von Meysenbug, Wazir Akbar Khan, Ion Ghica, Jan Arnošt Smoler, August Karl von Goeben, and William Gull. Among people deceased in 1872, John Frederick Kensett ranks 33Before him are Johan Rudolph Thorbecke, Kamehameha V, George Robert Gray, Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld, Avram Iancu, and Alfred Clebsch. After him are George Meade, Petar Preradović, Jacques Babinet, Princess Amalia of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Carl Jaenisch, and Friedrich Adolf Trendelenburg.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, John Frederick Kensett ranks 3,478 out of 18,182Before him are Lawrence Eagleburger (1930), Kenny Loggins (1948), Jack Thayer (1894), Donna Murphy (1959), Elizabeth Olsen (1989), and George Koval (1913). After him are Steve Berry (1955), Frank Jarvis (1878), John Marshall (1755), Tito Jackson (1953), Claire Danes (1979), and George Raft (1901).

Among PAINTERS In United States

Among painters born in United States, John Frederick Kensett ranks 40Before him are Gutzon Borglum (1867), Chuck Close (1940), Henry Hill (1943), Barbara Kruger (1945), Lawrence Weiner (1942), and Evel Knievel (1938). After him are Sam Francis (1923), Beatrice Wood (1893), Ellsworth Kelly (1923), Franz Kline (1910), Maso di Banco (1250), and Helen Frankenthaler (1928).