Beacon Rock, Newport Harbor
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
overall: 57.2 x 91.4 cm (22 1/2 x 36 in.) framed: 85.7 x 119.4 x 10.2 cm (33 3/4 x 47 x 4 in.)
Classification
Painting
Department
CAB
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Frederick Sturges, Jr.
Accession Number
1953.1.1
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...