Enoch Wood Perry

Full Name: Enoch Wood Perry Jr.

Artist

Centurion, 1868–1915

Proposed by
Launt Thompson

born July 31, 1831
Boston, Massachusetts

died December 14, 1915
New York (Manhattan), New York

elected March 7, 1868
Age thirty-six

buried Oak Hill Cemetery,
Newburyport, Massachusetts

proposer of

seconder of

Century Memorial

Almost as venerable in years, and equally delightful in temper, was Enoch Wood Perry, an artist who painted the portraits of Grant and Jefferson Davis before the Civil War. He had been Consul in Venice, and returned to this country in 1860, and it fell to him to render the features of many famous men. Here in New York for decades he was known and loved not merely as a painter, but as a friend of art and all the artists, and the best of good fellows. He was active in art movements, and worked efficiently to improve the instruction at the Academy, and to establish the free Arts School at Cooper Union. He was an Academician and a member of the Water Color Society, and one of the organizers of The Artists’ Aid.

Henry Osborn Taylor
1916 Century Association Yearbook

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