Joseph John Jenkins (1811 – 9 March 1885) was a British engraver and watercolor painter. He is best known for his portraits and landscapes paintings.

Life

Grave of Joseph John Jenkins in Highgate Cemetery

Joseph Jenkins was born in London in 1811. He was the son of an engraver, who trained him as an engraver. He later abandoned

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for

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, focusing on domestic subjects and landscapes. In 1842, Jenkins was elected an associate of the New Water Colour Society and became a member in 1843. He exhibited fifty-seven drawings at their exhibitions in Pall Mall. In 1847 he left, and joined the Old Watercolour Society; he was elected an associate in 1849, and a full member in 1850. He was its secretary for ten years, from 13 February 1854, and first introduced special private views of its exhibitions for members of the press. He also contributed to exhibitions, sending 271 drawings in all. Some of his drawings were engraved. In 1884 Jenkins resigned his membership of the society, and died unmarried on 9 March 1885, at 67 Hamilton Terrace,

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. He was buried on the western side of

Highgate Cemetery Highgate Cemetery is a place of burial in North London, England, designed by architect Stephen Geary. There are approximately 170,000 people buried in around 53,000 graves across the West and East sides. Highgate Cemetery is notable both for so ...

. A history of the Old Society of Painters in Water-colours, for which Jenkins had collected materials, was completed by John Lewis Roget in 1891.

Works

Jenkins engraved many portraits, and among other works, ''Susanna and the Elders'', after Francesco Mola, and ''The Greenwich Pensioner'' and ''The Chelsea Pensioner'', after

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. He engraved plates and drew illustrations for the annuals, such as ''The Keepsake'' and ''Heath's Book of Beauty'', Plates from his drawings are in

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's ''Illustrations to Byron'' and similar works.

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* , engraved by Henry Rolls for Friendship’s Offering annual, 1837, with a poetical illustration by

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* , painted and engraved for Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1838 with a poetical illustration by

. * Engraving of painted by J Wood for Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1839 with a poetical illustration ''Agnes'' by

. * , engraved by T A Dean for Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1839 with a poetical illustration by

. * , engraved by John Cochran for Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1839 with a poetical illustration by

. * , engraved by James Thomson for Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1840 with a posthumous poetical illustration by

. {{DEFAULTSORT:Jenkins, Joseph John 1811 births 1885 deaths Burials at Highgate Cemetery 19th-century English engravers 19th-century English painters English male painters 19th-century English male artists