Enoch Wood Perry, Jr.

Enoch Wood Perry Jr. (July 31, 1831 – December 14, 1915), was an American painter, from Boston. He was known for his portraits and landscape paints; and he lived in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; New Orleans, Louisiana; Northern California; Hawaii; and New York City.

Early life and education Perry was born in Boston on July 31, 1831. His father was Enoch Wood Perry, and mother was Hannah Knapp Dole. His maternal grandparents were Samuel Dole and Katherine Wigglesworth. Perry moved to New Orleans with his family as a teenager in 1848 and attended its public schools.

After working several years as a clerk in a commission house, Perry began formal art education. In 1852 he went to Europe for four years and studied with Emanuel Leutze at the Düsseldorf Academy, Thomas Couture in Paris, and in Rome.

Perry served as the U.S. consul to Venice between 1856 and 1858.

Career Upon returning to America, he opened a studio in Philadelphia. On the eve of the American Civil War, Perry moved back to New Orleans and opened a studio in 1860. He painted a portrait of Senator John Slidell and the signing the Ordinance of Secession of Louisiana by early 1861.

Perry then lived in New York City where he married Fannie Field on February 4, 1899.

The Addison Gallery of American Art in Andover, Massachusetts; the Bishop Museum in Honolulu, Hawaii; the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco; the Honolulu Museum of Art; the Louisiana State Museum in New Orleans; and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York are among the public collections holding works by Perry.