The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of December 21, 2025
Plaque
1879
(American, 1840–1907)
Diameter: 42.8 cm (16 7/8 in.); Overall: 4.5 cm (1 3/4 in.)
John L. Severance Fund 1986.30
Location: Not on view
Description
John Bennett was trained in England. He seems to have played a crucial role there by introducing painted decoration on ceramics at the Doulton factory in the early 1870s. Although they admired his talent, his English colleagues found Bennett had a difficult personality, and his stay at the Doulton factory was brief. By 1876 he was in New York, bringing with him the concepts of the English Aesthetic Movement: muted colors and great naturalism in the depiction of birds and flowers.- [David A. Hanks & Associates]
- Turner, Evan H. “The Year in Review for 1986.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 74, no. 2 (February 1987): 38–79. Mentioned and reproduced: p. 63, no. 56 www.jstor.org
- Year in Review for 1986. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 4-March 15, 1987).
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Source URL:
https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1986.30