Shipping in USA $ 80. John Frederick Kensett (1816 - 1872). American. Pencil on Paper. Measure 11 1/2"in H x 7 1/2"in W and 15 1/4"in H x 11 1/4"in W with frame. John Frederick Kensett was born in Cheshire, Connecticut, on March 22, 1816. The son of an engraver/publisher, he worked in various shops learning engraving during the 1830s. During these years, he met and corresponded with artist John W. Cassilear, who encouraged him to become a painter.Kensett was considered a second-generation Hudson River School painter. He was influenced by the poetry of William Wordsworth as he contemplated the wonder, majesty and sublime power of nature. Inspired by the words of William Cullen Bryant, he sensed the embodiment of the divine spirit in trees, flowers, meadows and mountains. His early training as an engraver led to his later anchoring his paintings with subtle gradations of gray that were the hallmark of an engraver's method for indicating distances. Instead of painting a bright sky and midday sun, as did his Hudson River School predecessors, he preferred to express nature through a calm, medium light where a broad range of subtle tonalities could be experienced.

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