Jonathan Budington: A Connecticut Visionary of Rural Landscape Jonathan Budington (c. 1779 – 1823) remains an enigmatic figure in American art history, a testament to the challenges faced by documenting artists whose output was modest and dispersed across time. Despite the scarcity of biographical details—primarily gleaned from sparse records and circumstantial evidence—Budington’s distinctive style has cemented his place as one of Connecticut's most notable exponents of naïve painting, aligning him squarely within the broader Ralph Earl School movement that flourished in the late eighteenth…