Jennie Augusta Brownscombe
| Jennie Augusta Brownscombe | |
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| Born |
December 10, 1850 Honesdale, Pennsylvania |
| Died | August 5, 1936 (aged 85) Bayside, New York |
| Resting place | Dyberry Cemetery, Honesdale, Pennsylvania 41°34′58.62″N 75°15′26.57″W / 41.5829500°N 75.2573806°WCoordinates: 41°34′58.62″N 75°15′26.57″W / 41.5829500°N 75.2573806°W |
| Education | Cooper Institute School of Design for Women, National Academy of Design, Art Students League of New York, private study in Paris |
| Known for | Painting |
| Notable work | The First Thanksgiving, Love's Young Dream |
| Movement | Genre, Colonial Revival, New Woman illustrator |
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At the National Academy of Design, she won:
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At the National Academy of Design, she won:
Jennie Augusta Brownscombe (December 10, 1850 – August 5, 1936) was an American painter, designer, etcher, commercial artist and illustrator. Brownscombe studied art for years in the United States and in Paris. She was a founding member, student and teacher at the Art Students League of New York. She made genre paintings, including revolutionary and colonial American history, most notably The First Thanksgiving held at Pilgrim Hall in Plymouth, Massachusetts. She sold the reproduction rights to more than 100 paintings, and images of her work have appeared on prints, calendars and greeting cards. Her works are in many public collections and museums. In 1899 she was described by New York World as "one of America's best artists."
Brownscombe was born December 10, 1850 in a one and a half story farmhouse near Irving Cliff in Honesdale, Pennsylvania, the only child of a farmer from Devonshire, England, William Brownscombe, and American Elvira Kennedy Brownscombe. Her father is believed to have immigrated to the United States about 1840 and built the home she was born and raised in. Her mother, Elvira Kennedy Brownscombe, was a descendent of a Mayflower passenger and Isaac Stearns who arrived in the colonies in 1630. During her life, Jennie Brownscombe was an active member of the Daughters of the American Revolution, the Mayflower Descendants and the Historic and Scenic Preservation Society.
Her mother, a talented writer and artist, fostered Brownscombe's interest in poetry and art. She won awards at the Wayne County Fair for her work when she was a high school student.
After her father's death in 1868, Brownscombe earned a living teaching high school in Honesdale and creating book and magazine illustrations, which were inspired by the streams and fields around her home and nearby Irving Cliff. She was described as "slender, with a thin face in which large brown eyes and a dimpled chin were distinctive, and reserved in manner. She lived simply with one companion or servant.
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