JOHN JOSEPH ENNEKING (1841- )
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Originally appearing in Volume
V09,
Page 647
of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
JOHN JOSEPH ENNEKING (1841- )
, American landscape painter, was born, of German ancestry, in Minster, Ohio, on the 4th of October 1841
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He was educated at Mount St Mary's College, Cincinnati, served in the American Civil War in 1861-1862, studied 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
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In 1873-1876 he studied in Munich under Schleich and Leier, and in Paris under Daubigny and Bonnat; and in 1878-1879 he studied in Paris again and sketched in See also: - HOLLAND
- HOLLAND, CHARLES (1733–1769)
- HOLLAND, COUNTY AND PROVINCE OF
- HOLLAND, HENRY FOX, 1ST BARON (1705–1774)
- HOLLAND, HENRY RICH, 1ST EARL OF (1S9o-,649)
- HOLLAND, HENRY RICHARD VASSALL FOX, 3RD
- HOLLAND, JOSIAH GILBERT (1819-1881)
- HOLLAND, PHILEMON (1552-1637)
- HOLLAND, RICHARD, or RICHARD DE HOLANDE (fl. 1450)
- HOLLAND, SIR HENRY, BART
Holland
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Enneking is a " plein-airist," and his favourite subject is the " November twilight " of New England, and more generally the half lights of early spring, late autumn, and winter dawn and evening
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