Gideon Jacques Denny
Illustration — Shipwrecked figures signaling to a distant sailing ship, oil painting by Gideon Jacques Denny Gideon Jacques Denny (1830–1886) was a marine artist who was born in Wilmington, Delaware on July 15, 1830. 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.
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- Born
- Gideon Jacques Denny was born on 15 July 1830. · Wilmington.
- Died
- Gideon Jacques Denny died on 7 October 1886. · Cambria.
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Illustration — Shipwrecked figures signaling to a distant sailing ship, oil painting by Gideon Jacques Denny Gideon Jacques Denny (1830–1886) was a marine artist who was born in Wilmington, Delaware on July 15, 1830. 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.
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After two years in California, he moved to Milwaukee, where he studied painting with Samuel Marsden Brookes. After six years of study in Milwaukee, Denny returned to San Francisco and established a studio on Bush Street. In 1862, Brookes moved to San Francisco and shared a studio with Denny. In 1868, Denny spent two months in Hawaii visiting several islands. He is also known to have visited Canada and South America. Denny died of malaria in Cambria, California on Oct. The Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, the Bishop Museum (Honolulu), the Crocker Art Museum (Sacramento, California), the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Monterey Museum of Art, and the Oakland Museum of California are among the public collections holding works by Gideon Jacques Denny.
Work by Gideon Jacques Denny is recorded in the collections of Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco and Crocker Art Museum.
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- 1.Hughes, 2002
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- 5.Smithsonian American Art Museum, Art Inventories Catalog
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