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EHNINGER, John Whetton, artist, born in New York City, 22 July 1827. He was graduated at Columbia in 184'7, and in 1848'9 studied art in Thornas Couture's studio in Paris. The subject of his first oil painting, "Peter Stuyvesant" (1850), was taken from Irving's "Knickerbocker's History of New York," and was engraved by the American art union. He went abroad again in 1851'2, and visited Dusseldorf and other art centres. Besides drawings in outline, pencil, and India ink, he has produced a series of etchings illustrating Hood's "Bridge of Sighs" (1849); a series on Irving's story of "Dolph Heyliger" (1850); and a set of eight illustration s for Longfellow's "Miles Standish" (1858). His best known paintings are " New England Farmyard"; "Yankee Peddler"; "Love me, Love my Horse" ; "The Foray" ; "The Sword" ; "Lafly Jane Grey" ; " Christ Healing the Sick" ; "Death and the Gambler" ; "Autumnal Landscape" (1867); "Monk" (1871); " Vintage in the Valtella" (1877); and "Twilight from the Bridge of Pau" (1878).
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