biografia di Adna TENNEY (1810-1900)

Birth place: Hanover, NH

Death place: Oberlin, OH

Profession: Portrait and miniature painter

Studied: received a few weeks of training from Francis Alexander in Boston, 1844

Work: Dartmouth College and the State House, Concord (NH)

Comments: Tenney was a farmer who turned to painting in his thirties. He worked as an itinerant artist in New Hampshire, as well as in NYC, Baltimore, and along the Mississippi (c.1856). He later moved to Winona (MN) and spent his last years at Oberlin (OH).

Sources: G&W; Tenney, The Tenney Family, 230, repro. preceding 281; Boston BD 1857; New England BD 1860 (Concord, N.H.); G&W has information courtesy Mrs. Rowland M. Cross, NYC, granddaughter of the artist.