Jervis mcentee biography sample

          Born in Rondout (a village that since has been a district of Kingston, and where the present writer once lived), Jervis McEntee was named for John Jervis....

          Jervis McEntee was a landscape painter, born in in the Hudson River Valley in Rondout, New York.

        1. Jervis McEntee was a landscape painter, born in in the Hudson River Valley in Rondout, New York.
        2. Jervis McEntee was a member of the Hudson River School of American painters, a midth century art movement known for romantic, poetic landscape paintings.
        3. Born in Rondout (a village that since has been a district of Kingston, and where the present writer once lived), Jervis McEntee was named for John Jervis.
        4. Jervis McEntee Diary Entry, May 14, , from the Jervis McEntee papers, , in the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
        5. McEntee was born in Rondout, New York, in McEntee had a poetic and artistic sensibility nurtured by Henry Jervis McEntee, ca.

          6. Jervis McEntee (July 14, 1828 – January 27, 1891) was an American painter of the Hudson River School. He is a somewhat lesser-known figure of the 19th century American art world, but was the close friend and traveling companion of several of the important Hudson River School artists.

          Aside from his paintings, McEntee's detailed journals are an enduring legacy.

          Biography

          McEntee was born in Rondout, New York on July 14, 1828. Little is known of his childhood. He exhibited his first painting at the National Academy of Design in New York City in 1850.

          Jervis McEntee was born on July 14, , to James and Sarah McEntee in the Town of.

          The following year he apprenticed with Frederic Edwin Church, who was then regarded as a rising star in the American art world. Church and McEntee remained lifelong friends, though McEntee never approached Church's fame and fortune.

          After studying with Church, McEntee engaged in business in Rondout. This he relinquished after three years, and, opening a studio in New York, devoted himself thenceforth wholly to art.[1]

          The landscapes of