JOHN FREDERICK KENSETT | MARINE SCENE

Kennedy Galleries, New York

Acquired by the present owner from the above, 1967

"A gentle sweetness, a calm content, a happiness to be with nature in calm and sunny hours, those are the traits of Kensett's artistic character [...] His pictures are still springs of refreshment in the heat and turmoil of the world, fair glimpses of the cool, pure sky caught between the dust clouds of this weary fighting-ground. The happy stood before them and recalled other happy days; hearts touched with sadness were soothed in their simplicity" (New York Daily Tribune, March 15, 1873, as quoted in John Driscoll and John K. Howat, John Frederick Kensett: An American Master, New York, 1985, p. 157).