Timeline of Enneking’s Life

• 1841 - October 4th, Born in Minster Ohio to Joseph Enneking and Margaretha (Bramlage) Enneking

• 1856 - Enneking’s mother and father died, moved to Cincinnati to live with an aunt

• 1858 - Entered Mount St. Mary College and was encouraged in drawing by President Rosecrans

• 1861 - Left to join Union Army during Civil War, received injuries and returned to Cincinnati

• 1864 - Moved to NYC, then Boston where he studied lithography and industrial drawing 

• 1864 - October 14th, Married Mary Eliot of Corinna, Maine

• 1865 - Began to manufacture tinware, the business succeeded then collapsed

• 1867 - Birth of daughter Florence, Married name Long d. 1937

• 1871 - Birth of daughter Emily, unmarried d. 1918

• 1872 - Left for Europe with his family

• 1872 - Spent 6 months at the Munich Royal Academy studying figure and landscape painting with Professors Eduard Schleich and Adolphe-Heinrich Lehr

• 1872 - Spent 3 months in Venice

• 1873 - Left for Paris via Switzerland with a letter of introduction to Leon Joseph Bonnat from Porter Vinton

• 1873 - Spent 3 years in Bonnat’s Studio

• 1873 - Became acquainted with Charles Francois Daubigny

• 1874 - Studied with Eugene Boudin for 3 months

• 1876 - Returned with family to Hyde Park and added a studio to his house

• 1876 - Birth of daughter Grace, Married name Ward d. 1964

• 1878 - May 2nd and 3rd, Major exhibit and auction of 100 of Enneking’s paintings at Williams and Everett’s Gallery in Boston, highest price picture was a large cattle scene for $650

• 1878 - Won 2 Gold Medals in the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanics Association Fair for Freshly Picked and Drove of Cattle on a November Day

• 1878 - Returned to Paris, after Daubigny’s death, left France to spend 6 months in Amsterdam

• 1878 - Returned to Boston and established studio at 149a Tremont Street

• 1879 - December 16, Exhibited 150 paintings and sketches in the gallery of the Unitarian Church in Hyde Park

• 1880s - Bought a summer house in North Newry Maine

• 1880s - Son Joseph Eliot born

• 1881 - Exhibited November Twilight at the National Academy of Design

• 1882 - July, Exhibited Winter Twilight at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston

• 1883 - January, Enneking one of a group of artists exhibiting at the American Art Galleries in New York, Enneking commended in local papers alongside Hassam, George Fuller, and Frederick Porter Vinton

• 1883 - One-man exhibition of 81 paintings at Williams and Everett’s Gallery, many of the works done in the Netherlands, Venice, and France

• 1883 - December 7-29, The Springfield Art Association’s “First Annual Exhibition of Oil Painting” included After Vacation and Winter Twilight

• 1884 - April 18-29, Exhibited 68 paintings at Williams and Everett’s Gallery, Enneking had broadened his subjects to include spring and summer landscapes, figures of children, and New England Kitchen Interiors since last exhibitions at Williams and Everett’s

• 1884 - Boston Art Club bought November Twilight for $600

• 1884 - Portrait of George Fuller was exhibited at the Bostonian Society in the Old State House

• 1885 - April 7-8, “Paintings American and Foreign” at Williams and Everett’s Gallery included Winter Twilight and Vacation Ends With Autumnal Days

• 1885 - Portrait of Enneking’s daughter Florence won a medal of honor at the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanics Association Fair and was valued at $2,000

• 1887 - After a Shower--October was included in the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanics Association’s “Sixteenth Triennial Exhibition”

• 1888 - Won an award for Kelp Gatherers at the Columbus Exhibition in Washington D.C.

• 1893 - Exhibited at the World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Included were Twilight, The Black Bull, and Duxbury Clam Digger

• 1897 - November 4-January 1 1898 - Enneking exhibited Sunset at the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh

• 1898 - January 10-February 22, Exhibited Sunset again at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts’ “Sixty-seventh Exhibition”

• 1898 - January 22-February 19, Exhibited October Eve, Among the Berkshire Hills, and Sheep in Stable in the Boston Art Club’s “Fifty-seventh Exhibition”

• 1898 - The Ten American Painters group was founded by Childe Hassam, John Twachtman, and J. Alden Weir, Enneking was invited to join but declined

• 1900 - Won honorable mention for a painting at the Paris Exposition

• 1901 - Won a silver medal at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo

• 1901 - Had an exhibition at the Lotos Club in New York

• 1902 - January 4-February 1, Exhibited 2 paintings in the Boston Art Club’s “Sixty-fifth Exhibition”: Chocorua Mountain, New Hampshire and Indian Summer Afternoon

• 1902 - The Soule Art Company of Boston included four paintings by Enneking in their catalogue of reproductions: Fireplace, Interior, Sheep, and Sunset

• 1903 - January 3-31, Entered 2 paintings in the Boston Art Club’s “Sixty-seventh Exhibition”, Cloudy Day in the Mountains and New England Hillside

• 1903 - April 16-18, To finance a third trip to Europe Enneking auctioned 150 paintings at the Beacon Art Galleries in Boston, in the first day about 50 paintings were sold for $5,000, the entire collection brought $8,000

• 1903 - After the auction Enneking left for Europe

• 1904 - January 1-30, 2 paintings by Enneking were included in the Boston Art Club’s “Sixty-ninth Exhibition”, Sunset--Ogunquit, Maine and Twilight

• 1905 - January 6-February 4, Was a member of the Jury of Admission and the Committee on Hanging at the Boston Art Club’s “Seventy-first Exhibition”

• 1905 - Acted as Chairman of the Advisory Committee and Jury for the Chicago World’s Fair Art Department, representing the New England States

• 1906 - January 6-February 3, Participated in the Boston Art Club’s “Seventy-third Exhibition”, November Morning and December Morning were exhibited

• 1907 - Completed and copyrighted the picture of The Mother Church of Christ, commissioned as a gift for the founder of the First Church of Christ Scientist, Mary Baker Eddy, he received $10,000 for the picture

• 1912 - April, Exhibited 2 paintings at the Copley Gallery in Boston, Fairmount Bridge, Winter and December Thaw

• 1915 - March 6, A testimonial dinner was held at the Copley Plaza Hotel to honor Enneking, Over 1,000 people attended this tribute to a living artist and speeches were given - Enneking was crowned with a laurel wreath after the banquet

• 1915 - Enneking won a Gold Medal at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition held in San Francisco for December Thaw

• 1916 - May 1-13, December Thaw and twenty other paintings by Enneking were exhibited at the Galleries of the Guild of Boston Artists

• 1916 - November 17, Died of Pneumonia at the age of 75, Funeral services were held at the Unitarian Church in Hyde Park and he was buried at the Fairview Cemetery in Hyde Park

• 1916 - Everything that was in Enneking’s studio was packed and stored in a warehouse, forgotten

• 1960 - The Boston warehouse which had stored the contents of Enneking’s studio was scheduled for demolition and the numerous paintings in room 610-D were once again brought to light prompting new interest in the artist