Gideon Jacques Denny [SEP] date of birth
Gideon Jacques Denny
Gideon Jacques Denny (1830–1886) was a marine artist who was born in Wilmington, Delaware on July 15, 1830. As a young man, he worked on ships in the Chesapeake Bay. He traveled to California in 1849 with the Gold Rush. He worked as a teamster on the San Francisco docks and was a member of the San Francisco Committee of Vigilance. After two years in California, he moved to Milwaukee, where he studied painting with Samuel Marsden Brookes. After six years of study in
of San Francisco, Monterey Peninsula Museum of Art, and the Oakland Museum of California are among the public collections holding works by Gideon Jacques Denny.
References.
- Hughes, Edan, "Artists in California 1786-1940", Sacramento, Crocker Art Museum, 2002.
- Severson, Don R. "Finding Paradise: Island Art in Private Collections", University of Hawaii Press, 2002, p. 80.
External links.
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Art Inventories Catalog
- Gideon Jacques