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Hannah Tempest Jenkins
Modern (19th century-1945) Painting
(Philadelphia, PA, March 7, 1854 - September 27, 1927, Claremont, CA)

Hannah tempest Jenkins, the daughter of Joseph and Catherine Tempest, grew up in Philadelphia in the tradtion of the Friends Society but later became an Episcopalian. After receiving an education in the public and private schools of Philadelphia, where she exhibited a talent for art, she married John H. Jenkins, an industrialist, about 1872. For a time, she put her aspirations for an art career aside. However, following her husband's early death, she attended the Philadelphia School of Industrial Art (1882-1887); the Spring Garden Institute, Philadelphia (1885-1887); and, over a long period, the PAFA (1888, 1893-1898) under William Merrit Chase and others. During these years, she also went abroad, studying in Paris and exhibiting at the Salon in 1889. In 1913, while on a world tour, she received instruction from Takouchi Sieho in Kyoto, Japan.


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