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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 See also:JOSEPH See also:ENNEKING (1841- )  , See also:American landscape painter, was See also:born, of See also:German ancestry, in See also:Minster, See also:Ohio, on the 4th of See also:October 1841 . He was educated at See also:Mount St See also:Mary's See also:College, See also:Cincinnati, served in the American See also:Civil See also:War in 1861-1862, studied See also:art in New See also:York and See also: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 See also:Munich under Schleich and Leier, and in See also:Paris under See also:Daubigny and See also:Bonnat; and in 1878-1879 he studied in Paris again and sketched in See also:Holland . See also:Enneking is a " plein-airist," and his favourite subject is the " See also:November See also:twilight " of New See also:England, and more generally the See also:half See also:lights of See also:early See also:spring, See also:late autumn, and See also:winter See also:dawn and evening .

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