ENOCH WOOD PERRY (1831 - 1915) Genre Painter of the American South, and Portraitist of the Confederacy

Enoch Wood Perry, (Jr.) N.A. (American, 1831 - 1915)

GIRL WITH BERRIES (probably inland Louisiana)

oil/canvas, 12-1/2" x 8-3/4"
Signed lower left "E.W. Perry, Jr."; dated : (18)'59

"Mr. Perry at the present time occupies a place very nearly at the head of our American genre painters. He was one of the first of them to paint American subjects and the most lowly are invested with a poetry of feeling and delicacy of expression which are not exceeded by any of his contemporaries..." -- Art Journal, July 1875

Perry worked in a mercantile house in New Orleans from 1848-52, when he went to Europe. He studied under Emmanuel Leutze in Dusseldorf for two years, and for a year in Paris under Couture. In 1857 he went to Venice, where he served as United States Consul.

In 1858 he returned to the U.S. By 1860 he was painting in a studio at 108 Saint Charles Street, New Orleans. There he painted a life-size portrait of U.S. Senator John Slidell, now in the Louisiana State Museum. He painted Jefferson Davis in 1861, before a map of the Confederate States. One of his major works, "Signing the Ordinance of the Secession of Louisiana", was painted in 1861

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