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Gideon Jacques Denny

Gideon Jacques Denny (1830 - 1886) was active/lived in California, Delaware.  Gideon Denny is known for Marine, landscape and portrait painting.

Born in Wilmington, DE on July 15, 1830. As a young man Denny was a sailor of small craft on Chesapeake Bay and his enthusiasm for ships never waned. Arriving in San Francisco with the Gold Rush in 1849, he worked as a teamster on the waterfront and was a member of the Vigilance Committee.

After two years in California, he opted for an art career and then traveled to Milwaukee where he was a pupil of Samuel Marsden Brookes. After six years of study there, he returned to San Francisco and established a studio on Bush Street. When Brookes moved to San Francisco in 1862, the two friends shared a studio for many years. Although he did a few portraits and landscapes, it was his paintings of the clippers and shipping activities on San Francisco Bay that were to bring him success and fame.

These views often include ship wrecks along the West Coast done in a Turneresque manner with vaporous effects of smoke, steam, and clouds. He never married and remained a resident of S

Source: Edan Hughes, "Artists in California, 1786-1940"
Kahn Collection cat.; Dictionnaire des Peintres, Sculpteurs, Dessinateurs, et Graveurs (Bénézit, E); Yesterday's Artists on the Monterey Peninsula; SF Call, 10-9-1886 (obituary).

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