Hannah Tempest Jenkins

Hannah Tempest Jenkins (1855–1927) was an American painter and educator. She taught at Pomona College and founded The Rembrandt Club of Pomona College and Claremont, an art appreciation society that still exists.

Biography Jenkins (née Tempest) was born on March 7, 1854, in Philadelphia. She married John H. Jenkins in 1872. After his early death she began her art career. She studied in Philadelphia at the Spring Garden Institute, the School of Industrial Art, and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. She also studied at the Académie Julian in Paris, and with Takeuchi Seihō in Kyoto. Her teachers in included William Merritt Chase, Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant, Tony Robert-Fleury Cecilia Beaux, and Robert Vonnoh.

Jenkins exhibited at the Paris Salon, the National Academy of Design, and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. as well as the Alaska–Yukon–Pacific Exposition in 1909 in Seattle, Washington. She helped establish the Art Department at Pomona

Jenkins died on September 27, 1927,

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