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William Jennys (1774–1859), also known asJ. William Jennys, was an Americanprimitive portrait painter who was active from about 1790 to 1810. He traveled throughout New England seeking commissions in rural areas and small towns. He was the son of the self-taught itinerant portrait painter Richard Jennys (1735–1809), who was trained by and traveled with his father from about 1792 to 1808

His early works are characterized by broadly modeled faces with a minimum of costume detail and bare backgrounds. Both the costumes and backgrounds became more detailed as his career progressed. TheConnecticut Historical Society (Hartford, Connecticut),Currier Museum of Art (Manchester, New Hampshire), theFarnsworth Art Museum (Rockland, Maine), theLyman Allyn Art Museum (New London, Connecticut), theHonolulu Museum of Art, theMetropolitan Museum of Art (New York City), theMinneapolis Institute of Arts, theMuseum of Fine Arts, Boston, theNational Gallery of Art (Washington D.C.), the Rockefeller Folk Art Collection (Colonial Williamsburg) theUtah Museum of Fine Arts (Salt Lake City), theMuseum of Arts and Sciences (Daytona Beach) andWake Forest University Fine Arts Gallery (Winston-Salem, North Carolina), are among the public collections holding work by William Jennys.

• Chotner, Deborah,American Naive Paintings, Washington, National Gallery of Art, 1992.

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  Portrait of Mrs. Cooke by William Jennys, oil on panel,Honolulu Museum of Art
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  Portrait of Col.Benjamin Simonds by William Jennys
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