biography of Charles Waldo JENKINS (1821-1896)

Birth place: Owasco, NY

Death place: NYC

Addresses: Utica, NY, in 1842; NYC, by 1849-

Profession: Portrait painter

Studied: E.W. Goodwyn in Auburn, NY

Exhibited: NAD, 1842-86; Metropolitan Fair (to aid the U.S. Sanitary Commission), 1864 (still lifes)

Work: Rutgers Univ. Art Mus.

Comments: Painted portraits in Auburn, Syracuse, Utica, and NYC (all NY). Also a musician and fancy skater, his best-known works are portraits of the presidents of Rutgers University. He was listed in the directories until 1895.

Sources: G&W; Cowdrey, NAD; Naylor, NAD; NYCD 1849-95; Egbert, Princeton Portraits; 7 Census (1850), N.Y., LII, 324; 8 Census (1860), N.Y., LVII, 925; addit. info. courtesy of David Stewart Hull, NYC