John Frederick Kensett: The Luminist Vision Born in Cheshire, Connecticut, in 1816, John Frederick Kensett’s journey to becoming a pivotal figure in American landscape painting was anything but straightforward. Initially apprenticed to his father as an engraver – a skill he diligently honed in New Haven and Albany – Kensett harbored a deep-seated desire to capture the ephemeral beauty of nature through brushstrokes, not lines. This ye…