John Joseph Enneking

John Joseph Enneking, American. (1841 - 1916). John Joseph Enneking received his first art instruction in Cincinnati, OH. He moved in 1865 to Boston, MA, where he received further instruction while earning his livelihood in business. In 1873 he determined to make art his full-time profession and spent the following three years in Europe, studying for nine months in Munich and for two years in Paris with Charles-Francois Daubigny and Leon Bonnat. Settling in Hyde Park, MA, in 1876, he established himself as a landscape painter of picturesque New England scenery and of hazy winter twilight scenes. Enneking had his first major success when a large exhibition of his pictures was held in Boston in 1878. The sale of these paintings launched him as one of the most popular landscape painters in New England. While his early landscapes reflect the influence of his Barbizon training, his later images of brightly coloured, sunlit scenes reveal the influence of American Impressionist artists such as Theodore Robinson and John H. Twachtman. The painting depicted here is a fine example of his lovely pastoral scenes capturing the sun and airy clouds above a lush New England hillside of grazing cows. "The Pasture" Signed lower right, Enneking, '84. Oil on canvas, 10" x14" Price  $

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