Jennie Augusta Brownscombe

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Jennie Brownscombe

Jennie Augusta Brownscombe (born December 10, 1850 in Honesdale , Pennsylvania , † August 5, 1936 in Bayside, Queens , New York City ) was an American painter , designer , etcher and illustrator .

Life

Jennie Brownscombe was born on December 10, 1850 in Honesdale , Pennsylvania , the only child of the farmer William Brownscombe of Devonshire , England, and the American Elvira Kennedy Brownscombe. Her father immigrated from England to the United States around 1840, where he built the family home in Honesdale. Her mother was a descendant of a Mayflower passenger and Isaac Stearns , who immigrated to the colonies in 1630. Jennie Brownscombe was a lifetime member of the Daughters of the American Revolution and the Historic and Scenic Preservation Society . Her father died when she was 18 years old; then she turned to the design of illustrations for books and newspapers.

Brownscombe studied art in New York City and Paris for many years. Brownscombe was a founding member, student and later teacher at the Art Students League of New York . She has painted many paintings, especially those about early and colonial American history, including The First Thanksgiving , which is in the Pilgrim Hall Museum in Plymouth , Massachusetts . Brownscombe sold the reproduction rights to more than 100 paintings, so many prints, greeting cards and calendars were created with their works. Much of her work is in public collections and museums; her paintings Interior Scene and Love's Young Dream, for example, are in the permanent exhibition of the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, DC

Jennie Brownscombe had never married and had no children. Her teacher and companion was the New York genre and still life painter George Henry Hall , whom she often accompanied to Rome in the winter and who bequeathed his house in the Catskill Mountains to her in 1913 . She died in New York City on August 5, 1936, at the age of 85 .

In 1899 she was named "One of the Best American Artists" by the New York World .

gallery

  • The homecoming , 1885

  • Love's Young Dream , 1887

  • Washington Welcomes Lafayette to Mount Vernon , oil painting, early 20th century

  • Sunday morning in sleepy Hollow , 1902

  • The first Thanksgiving in Plymouth , 1914

  • Girl and Roses , 1906

  • The Landing of the Pilgrims , around 1920, black and white copy

Collections

Brownscombe's works can be found in the following collections, among others:

Web links

Commons : Jennie Augusta Brownscombe  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Jennie Augusta Brownscombe ( Memento of the original from June 23, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Dictionary of Women Worldwide: 25,000 Women Through the Ages. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.highbeam.com
  2. ↑ a b c d Kent Ahrens: Jennie Brownscombe: American History Painter. In: Woman's Art Journal , Vol. 1, No. 2 (Fall 1980 - Winter 1981), pp. 25-29
  3. ↑ a b c Jennie Augusta Brownscombe on the National Museum of Women in the Arts website .
personal data
SURNAME Brownscombe, Jennie Augusta
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American painter
DATE OF BIRTH December 10, 1850
PLACE OF BIRTH Honesdale , Pennsylvania
DATE OF DEATH August 5, 1936
Place of death Bayside, Queens , New York City