Education
After two years in California, he moved to Milwaukee, where he studied painting with Samuel Marsden Brookes.
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Gideon Denny
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As a young man, he worked on ships in the Chesapeake Bay. He traveled to California in 1849 with the Gold Rush. After six years of study in Milwaukee, Denny returned to San Francisco and established a studio on Bush Street.
In 1862, Brooks moved to San Francisco and shared a studio with Denny.
In 1868, Denny spent two months in Hawaii visiting several islands. He is also known to have visited Canada and South America.
Denny died of malaria in Cambria, California on October 7, 1886. The Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, the Bishop Museum (Honolulu), the Crocker Art Museum (Sacramento, California), the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Monterey Peninsula Museum of Art, and the Oakland Museum of California are among the public collections holding works by Gideon Jacques Denny.
Membership
He worked as a teamster on the San Francisco docks and was a member of the San Francisco Committee of Vigilance.
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Vigilance