Contentment Island

Details

JOHN FREDERICK KENSETT (1816-1872)
Contentment Island
signed with conjoined initials 'JF.K.' (lower left)
oil on canvas
14 x 24 in. (35.6 x 61 cm.)

Provenance

Colt family collection, 1870s.
Private collection, by descent from the above.
Michael Altman Fine Art & Advisory Services, New York.
Acquired by the present owner from the above, 2008.

Exhibited

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Public Treasures/Private Visions: Hudson River School Masterworks from the Metropolitan Museum of Art & Private Collections, June 15, 2009-May 30, 2010.

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