Jervis McEntee

Jervis McEntee
Jervis McEntee / Austin Augustus Turner / Metropolitan Museum of Art, CC0

(1828–1891) American painter (1828-1891)

Jervis McEntee (USA, 1828–1891) is listed in the catalogue as a painter. By year of birth, Jervis McEntee belongs to the chapter ‘Realism’ in this site’s history of art.

Jervis McEntee was born in Rondout and died in Rondout. Jervis McEntee studied under Frederic Edwin Church. Wikidata associates Jervis McEntee with Hudson River school.

One of the best-known works is ‘Summer Hills, Kauterskill Clove’. The works belong mainly to the genre landscape painting. The catalogue has 42 works by Jervis McEntee with free images. The dated works span the years 1850–1890. Works by Jervis McEntee are held by several collections, among them Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Historical, Detroit Institute of Art, and The Newark Museum of Art. Wikidata links one work to a movement covered in the chapter ‘Romanticism’.

Contemporary artists in the same chapter include Richard Morris Hunt, David Johnson, Quido Mánes, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and Oscar Begas.