藝術家Richard JENNYS (?-c.1800) 生平簡歷

地址： Active chiefly in Boston and Connecticut

职业： Itinerant portrait painter, and mezzotint engraver

教育： Boston Public Latin School (grad., 1744)

工作： NPG, Wash., DC (mezzotint portrait of Jonathan Mayhew, 1766); Conn. Hist. Soc.; Litchfield Hist. Soc.; New Milford Hist. Soc.

评论： Son of Richard Jennys, a Boston notary public. The younger Jenny's earliest known work, a mezzotint portrait of Rev. Jonathan Mayhew of Boston, was published in 1766. Jennys advertised as a dry goods dealer in Boston in 1771 and again from 1777-83. Between 1783-90 he worked as portrait and miniature painter in Charleston, SC (1783-84); Savannah, GA; and the West Indies. To date, no work from any of these places has been located. By 1792, and possibly earlier, he was working in Connecticut. He advertised as a portrait painter in New Haven (1792) and apparently soon after settled in New Milford, CT, where he was active until 1799. Three signed works from these years have been found. The portrait painter William Jennys (see entry) was also working in and around New Milford in the mid-1790s and their work has been confused; whether the two artists were related has not been determined.

来源： G&W; Sherman, Richard Jennys; Warren, The Jennys Portraits" (with catalogue of a Jennys exhibition at the Conn. Hist. Soc., Nov. 1955-Jan. 1956); Warren, "A Checklist of Jennys Portraits"; Stauffer; Whitmore, Notes Concerning Peter Pelham, 21. More recently, see Saunders and Miles, 275-76; Baigell, Dictionary.