Beach at Beverly
John Frederick Kensett
c. 1869/1872
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
overall: 55.8 x 86.4 cm (21 15/16 x 34 in.) framed: 85.1 x 115.6 x 8.6 cm (33 1/2 x 45 1/2 x 3 3/8 in.)
Classification
Painting
Department
CAB
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Frederick Sturges, Jr.
Accession Number
1978.6.5
About the Artist
John Frederick Kensett · 1816–1872
John Frederick Kensett (1816–1872) was one of the most admired American landscape painters of the nineteenth century, a central figure of the Hudson River School whose late work pioneered the atmospheric, light-saturated style now known as Luminism. Born in Cheshire, Connecticut, into a family of engravers, Kensett learned the craft of engraving in his youth, a discipline that gave him an early tr...