Questroyal 2009

John Frederick Kensett ( 1816 – 1872 ) Plate 21 Forest Landscape Oil on canvas 14 x 10 5 / 16 inches provenance Private collection, NewYork Plate 22 Scene at Lake George , c. 1865 Oil on canvas 17 5 / 16 x 24 1 / 4 inches provenance The artist Estate of the artist Sale, Association Hall, NewYork, March 29, 1873 Arthur Parton, NewYork Private collection exhibited National Academy of Design, NewYork, John Frederick Kensett Memorial Exhibition , 1873 literature Photographs of Paintings by J. F. Kensett at the National Academy of Design in 1873 , pl. 22 (available online at http://www.aaa.si.edu/). Plate 23 A View of Lake George Oil on paper mounted on canvas 10 3 / 16 x 13 3 / 16 inches provenance Sale, Sotheby’s Arcade, NewYork, February 1, 1990 , lot 83 Michael N. Altman Fine Art & Advisory Services, LLC, NewYork note These paintings will be included in John Driscoll’s forthcoming catalogue raisonné of the artist’s work. Before the great modern question of the values began to arouse much attention in the ateliers of Paris, Kensett had already grasped the perception of a theory of art practice which has since become so prominent in foreign art. samuel g. w. benjamin, art critic, 1880 1 It is pastoral poetry in painting. Regarded technically, we should say it was almost perfect of its kind. The Aldine, the Art Journal of America, 1873 2 Plate 21 Forest Landscape