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William Jennys

William Jennys (1774 - 1859) was active/lived in Connecticut, New Hampshire.  William Jennys is known for Naive portrait-itinerant.

With birthplace unknown, William Jennys, an itinerant portrait painter, was painting portraits in the vicinity of New Milford, Connecticut in the mid-1790s, then New York City, and after 1800 in the Connecticut River Valley into Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire and the southern states. It appears that his career began in 1792, when he first advertised in Norwich, Connecticut as a portrait painter.   However, "the sedentary life did not suit the independent artist, and he soon became an itinerant painter, traveling throughout New England and New York." (Vose)

He trained with his father, Richard Jennys, and they traveled together, but William's style was more realistic than his father's and showed "greater attention to the modeling of facial features and the depcition of his sitters' unique personalities." (Vose)  But h was unskilled with arms and legs and usually avoided showing them.

Jennys was financially successful, and in 1804 settl   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 1767 characters.]  Artist bio

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