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Jervis McEntee  American  1828 -1891
Born: Rondout, New York  
Died: Rondout, New York  
Active: Rondout, New York  1828-1850, 1850s
New York, New York  1850-1851, 1858
Addresses:  Rondout New York   
Studied: New York City 1850-1851
Instructors: Frederic Edwin Church 1850-1851
Exhibited: National Academy of Design 1861-1890
Brooklyn Art Association 1862-1882, 1886
Paris Exposition 1867
Boston Art Club 1873-1891
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts 1876-1877, 1885, 1887
Art Institute of Chicago 1880
Maryland Historical Society 
Boston Athenaeum 
Brooklyn Art Association 
Royal Academy, London 
Beacon Hill Fine Arts, NYC 1997
Royal Academy, London 
Examples of Work: Corcoran Gallery, Washington, DC 
National Academy of Design 
Peabody Institute, Baltimore 
Specialty: Painter
Style/School: Hudson River School
Subjects Known For: Landscapes
Memberships: National Academy of Design ANA 1860; NA 1861
Century Association 
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Landscape painter Jervis McEntee was born in Rondout, New York in the Hudson River Valley, in 1828; he died in 1891, in the same community. The nearby Catskill Mountains were reflected in his paintings of rural New York St... (More)

Jervis McEntee studied art under Frederick Church in NYC from 1850-51 and was a member of the Hudson River School. In 1858 he opened his own studio in NYC. His works are typically small and detailed and would occasionally in... (More)

Jervis McEntee was one of the most sensitive artists of the Hudson River School, praised for his ability to invest landscape with understated emotion. Henry Tuckerman wrote that "McEntee is fond of rendering landscape subser... (More)

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