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Jacob Ennis

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Jacob Ennis (1728-1770) was an Irish historical and portrait painter. He studied at Dublin under Robert West, and afterwards in Italy, and subsequently became a master in the Dublin Art School. He died, through a fall from his horse, in the county of Wicklow, in 1770.

References

  • Public Domain This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domainBryan, Michael (1886). "Ennis, W.". In Graves, Robert Edmund (ed.). Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers (A–K). Vol. I (3rd ed.). London: George Bell & Sons.