John Whetten Ehninger (July 22, 1827 New York City - January 22, 1889 Saratoga, New York) was a United States painter and etcher.

Biography

He graduated from Columbia University in 1847. He was a pupil of Couture in Paris 1848-1849, and afterward studied at Düsseldorf and other art centres 1851-1852.

Among his paintings, which include landscape and figure subjects, are:

·           “Peter Stuyvesant” (1850)

·           “Autumn Landscape” (1867)

·           “Monk” (1871)

·           “Vintage in the Valtella” (1877)

·           “Twilight from the Bridge of Pau” (1878)

·           “Death and the Gambler” (Saratoga, 1895)

·           “New England Farmyard”

·           “Yankee Peddler”

·           “Love me, Love my Horse”

·           “The Foray”

·           “The Sword”

·           “Lady Jane Grey”

·           “Christ Healing the Sick”

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.

References

§  This article incorporates text from an edition of the New International Encyclopedia that is in the public domain.

§   "Ehninger, John Whetton". Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. 1900.