[John Joseph]. American landscape painter, born, of German ancestry, in Minster, OH, on the 4th of October 1841. He was educated at Mount St. Marys College, Cincinnati, served in the American Civil War in 18611862, studied art in New York and Boston, and gave it up because his eyes were weak, only to return to it after failing in the manufacture of tinware. In 18731876 he studied in Munich under Schleich and Leier, and in Paris under Daubigny and Bonnat; and in 18781879 he studied in Paris again and sketched in Holland. Enneking is a plein-airist, and his favourite subject is the November twilight of New England, and more generally the half lights of early spring, late autumn, and winter dawn and evening. He died at Hyde Park, MA, on the 17th of November 1916.