01 Marine Painting - Frank Townsend Lent , With Footnotes, #276

Frank Townsend Lent (American, 1855-1919)

Sailing Regatta, c. 1898

Oil on canvas

12"h x 20"w

Private collection

Frank Townsend Lent (1855–1919) was a residential architect, painter and author. Lent designed many suburban and summer cottage homes in Massachusetts, Maine, New Jersey, and Ontario around the turn of the century in the Victorian and Edwardian architectural period. Several of these homes are protected by their town's historical society.

Lent lived in Cranford, New Jersey. He published "A Souvenir of Cranford, NJ" in 1894 to showcase his architectural works including his personal home.

Lent wrote three books about architecture during the 1890s. Sound Sense in Suburban Architecture,  Sensible Suburban Architecture, and Summer Homes and Camps.

Lent studied at the Poughkeepsie Military Institute and then attended Rutgers University, and graduated in 1878 with a master's degree in science. Lent apprenticed to architect William Appleton Potter (1842-1909),who designed several imposing buildings at Princeton University including the Chancellor Green Library completed in 1873 and Alexander Hall completed in 1894.[3]

Lent was also a landscape painter of the plein-air school. More on Frank Townsend Lent

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