Jennie Augusta Brownscombe (1850 - 1936)

Born 10 Dec 1850 in Honesdale, Wayne, Pennsylvania, United States

Ancestors

Died 5 Aug 1936 at age 85 in Bayside, Queens, New York, United States

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Biography

Jennie Brownscombe is Notable.

Jennie was born in 1850. She was the daughter of William Brownscombe and Elvira Kennedy.

She was was an American painter, designer, etcher, commercial artist and illustrator.

Her most well known painting is likely The First Thanksgiving, which is in the collection of Pilgrim Hall Museum in Plymouth, Massachusetts.^[1]

Honesdale Pennsylvania's Very Famous Artist^[2][3]

"BROWNSCOMBE, Miss Jennie, artist, born near Honesdale, Pa., 10th December, 1850. Her father, a farmer, was a native of Devonshire, England. Her mother belonged to a family conspicuous among the Connecticut pioneers, who came to the Colonies in 1640 with Governor Winthrop.

Miss Brownscombe was the only child. She was studious and precocious, and about equally inclined to art and literature. She early showed a talent for drawing, and when only seven years old she began drawing, using the juices of flowers and leaves with which to color her pictures. In school she illustrated every book that had a blank leaf or margin available.

Her father died before she left school, and her mother in 1891. When Jennie was eighteen years old, she began to teach school, and at the age of twenty she became a student in the Cooper Institute School of Design for Women in New York, from which she won a medal at the end of a year, and for several succeeding years she studied in the National Academy, winning first medals in the life and antique schools.

In the second year of her study she began to make drawings on wood for "Harper's Weekly" and other periodicals, and to teach drawing and painting. She devoted her study mainly to genre figure painting and has made a large number of portraits. Her first important picture was exhibited in 1876 in the Academy of Design in New York. She was one of the first members of the Art Students' League.

In 1883 she went to Paris and studied under Harry Moster. On her return in 1883 she was incapacitated from work by an injury to her eyes, and for a year she did but little. Her pictures have been reproduced in photogravures, etchings and engravings for the past six years. Some of her most widely known pictures are "Grandmother's Treasures," "Love's Young Dream," "Blossom Time," "Halcyon Days," "The Gleaners." "Sunday Morning in Sleepy Hollow," "The Recessional" and "The Sirens.

Miss Brownscombe now lives in Honesdale, Pa."

DEATH RECORD

Name: Jennie Brownscombe, age 85

Event Date: 05 Aug 1936

Event Place: New York City, Queens, New York, United States

Address: 214-06 40th Ave.

Residence Place: Bayside, Queens, N. Y.

Marital Status: Single

Race: White

Occupation: Artist-Painter

Birth Date: 10 Dec 1850

Birthplace: Honesdale, Pa.

Burial Date: 07 Aug 1936

Burial Place: Honesdale, Pa.

Cemetery: Glen Dyberry

Father's Name: Wm. Brownscombe

Father's Birthplace: England

Mother's Name: Elvira Kennedy

Mother's Birthplace: U. S. A.

Sources

1. ↑ https://pilgrimhall.org/images/collections/hp_first_thanksgiving_1.jpg
2. ↑ Woman of the Century - Jennie Brownscombe
3. ↑ https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/16010739

• "United States Census, 1860", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MXR6-VM3 : 12 December 2017), John Kaslake in entry for Wm Brownscomb, 1860.

• "United States Census, 1870", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MZ2P-S2J : 14 June 2019), David Kennedy in entry for Elvira Brownscombe, 1870.

• "United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MWNH-Y2L : 16 July 2017), Jennie Brownscomb in household of H Brownscomb, Wilkes Barre, Luzerne, Pennsylvania, United States; citing enumeration district ED 123, sheet 729A, NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), FHL microfilm 1,255,149.

• "United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M5ZX-L7J : accessed 14 December 2019), Anna Todd in household of Annie Nichols, Manhattan Ward 18, New York, New York, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 650, sheet 3A, family 29, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1982), roll 1036; FHL microfilm 1,375,049.

• "New York, New York City Municipal Deaths, 1795-1949," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:2W2B-2WV), entry for Jennie Brownscombe, 05 Aug 1936; citing Death, New York City, Queens, New York, United States, New York Municipal Archives, New York; FHL microfilm 2,184,509.

• https://nmwa.org/explore/artist-profiles/jennie-augusta-brownscombe

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6kOSG504uU

• https://mydailyartdisplay.wordpress.com/2017/05/17/jennie-augusta-brownscombe/

• https://www.jstor.org/stable/1358080?seq=1

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennie_Augusta_Brownscombe