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John Frederick Kensett

John Frederick Kensett painted subtle and poetic depictions of nature that revealed his belief in the divine qualities of the natural world. The son of a Connecticut engraver, Kensett honed his mastery of detail and ability to create subtle tonality by working as an engraver of bank notes prior to pursuing landscape painting. Like so many of his contemporaries, Kensett turned to the vast beauty of the American landscape for inspiration and subject matter after years of study in Europe.National Museum of American Art(CD-ROM) (New York and Washington D.C.: MacMillan Digital in cooperation with the National Museum of American Art, 1996)