Phoebe A. Jenks
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Phoebe A. Jenks | |
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Born | July 28, 1847 ![]() Portsmouth ![]() |
Died | January 20, 1907 ![]() Boston ![]() |
Occupation | Painter ![]() |
Spouse(s) | Lewis E. Jenks ![]() |
Children | Barton Pickering Jenks ![]() |
Phoebe Ann Pickering Hoyt Jenks (July 28, 1847 – January 20, 1907) was an American portrait painter.
Phoebe A. Jenks was born on July 28, 1847 in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, the daughter of Dennis Hoyt and Fidelia Barton Hoyt. In 1860 she married Boston silversmith Lewis E. Jenks.[1][2]
Jenks began painting at age 29 and studied under Benjamin Curtis Porter and D. T. Kendrick. She became a portrait painter in Boston, specializing in portraits of women and children.[1][2]
Phoebe A. Jenks died on 20 January 1907 in Boston.[1][2]
References
- ^ a b c Derby, George; White, James Terry (c. 1892). The National cyclopaedia of American biography, being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time. Robarts - University of Toronto. New York J.T. White.
- ^ a b c Benezit (2006). Benezit Dictionary Of Artists, Herring-Koornstra. Internet Archive. Grund.
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