Jean Brinton Jaecks is a plein air landscape painter. She received her MFA from George Washington University and a BFA from Maryland Institute College of Art. She also studied at the Cape Cod School of Art with Henry Hensche. She was a recipient of The Alfred and Trafford Klots International Program for Artists in Brittany, France.  Jean teaches plein air painting on the Amalfi Coast in the summer as well as Sonoma, Cape Ann, San Diego, and Chadds Ford, Pa.  She is also been an adjunct professor for St. John’s College in Annapolis for twenty years, the Corcoran College of Art and Design, US Botanic Garden, Anne Arundel Community College and the Paca Garden.  Her paintings have exhibited in Maori and Vietri sul Mare, Italy;  the Rocherfort-en-Terre Museum in Brittany, France; Corcoran Museum of Art; the National Arts Club; the Central Park Boathouse in New York City; the National Adirondack Exhibit of American Watercolors; the McKissick Museum, Columbia, S.C; and the Heritage Museum, Talladega, Alabama.

      In July 2006 Jean was invited to demo a large scale watercolor painting at the grand reopening of the Smithsonian American Art Museum.