biography of John Henry DUNNELL (1813-1904)

Birth place: Millbury, MA

Death place: NYC

Addresses: NYC

Profession: Amateur landscape painter

Exhibited: NAD (1847-48: views of New York and New Jersey); Mechanics' Inst. Fair, 1857

Work: Bancroft Lib., UC, Berkeley

Comments: As a business man, probably in the New York area, Dunnell exhibited several views at the National Academy in the late 1840's. From 1849 to 1851 he was in business in Coloma (CA), and at this time he made three views of Sutter's Mill. Dunnel returned to NYC in 1851 and became active in Republican politics, especially in the election of 1856. In 1857 he returned to California for three years, as agent for the Singer Manufacturing Company. From 1860 until his death, he was a resident of NYC.

Sources: G&W; Van Nostrand and Coulter, California Pictorial, 62; Art Annual, V; Cowdrey, NAD; Cowdrey, AA & AAU. More recently, see Hughes, Artists of California, 160.