John Whetton Ehninger

John Whetten Ehninger (1827-89) was an American painter and etcher, born in New York City. He was a pupil of Couture in Paris and afterward studied at Düsseldorf. Among his paintings, which include landscape and figure subjects, are:
* "Peter Stuyvesant" (1850)
* "Death and the Gambler"
* "Autumn Landscape" (1867)
* "Twilight from the Bridge of Pau" (1878)

He was a clever and versatile draftsman and is perhaps best known for his illustrations of Longfellow's "Miles Standish" (1858) and Irving's "Dolph Heylinger" and "Ye Legend of St. Gwendolyn" (1867). The drawings for the latter were considered so delicate that they were reproduced by photography — an unusual method in that day.

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