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JOHN JOSEPH ENNEKING (1841- )

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Originally appearing in Volume V09, Page 647 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JOHN JOSEPH ENNEKING (1841- )  ,
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American landscape painter, was born, of German ancestry, in Minster,
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Ohio, on the 4th of
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October 1841 . He was educated at Mount St Mary's College,
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Cincinnati, served in the American
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Civil War in 1861-1862, studied
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art in New York and Boston, and gave it up because his eyes were weak, only to return to it after failing in the manufacture of tinware . In 1873-1876 he studied in Munich under Schleich and Leier, and in Paris under Daubigny and
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Bonnat; and in 1878-1879 he studied in Paris again and sketched in Holland . Enneking is a " plein-airist," and his favourite subject is the " November
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twilight " of New England, and more generally the
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half lights of early spring,
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late autumn, and winter dawn and evening .

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