diff --git a/jOOQ-test/src/org/jooq/test/_/testcases/DataTypeTests.java b/jOOQ-test/src/org/jooq/test/_/testcases/DataTypeTests.java
index c8b1de9248..e8de3c82b4 100644
--- a/jOOQ-test/src/org/jooq/test/_/testcases/DataTypeTests.java
+++ b/jOOQ-test/src/org/jooq/test/_/testcases/DataTypeTests.java
@@ -83,6 +83,8 @@ import org.jooq.UpdatableRecord;
 import org.jooq.impl.SQLDataType;
 import org.jooq.test.BaseTest;
 import org.jooq.test.jOOQAbstractTest;
+import org.jooq.test._.converters.Boolean_YES_NO_LC;
+import org.jooq.test._.converters.Boolean_YES_NO_UC;
 import org.jooq.tools.unsigned.UByte;
 import org.jooq.tools.unsigned.UInteger;
 import org.jooq.tools.unsigned.ULong;
@@ -1102,6 +1104,17 @@ extends BaseTest<A, AP, B, S, B2S, BS, L, X, DATE, BOOL, D, T, U, I, IPK, T658,
         assertEquals('1', (char) author2.getValue(TAuthor_ID(), char.class));
         assertEquals('a', (char) author2.getValue(TAuthor_LAST_NAME(), Character.class));
         assertEquals('a', (char) author2.getValue(TAuthor_LAST_NAME(), char.class));
+
+        // [#1448] Check conversion from String to Enum
+        Record record =
+        create().select(inline("YES"), inline("NO"))
+                .fetchOne();
+
+        assertEquals(Boolean_YES_NO_UC.YES, record.getValue(0, Boolean_YES_NO_UC.class));
+        assertEquals(Boolean_YES_NO_UC.NO, record.getValue(1, Boolean_YES_NO_UC.class));
+
+        assertNull(record.getValue(0, Boolean_YES_NO_LC.class));
+        assertNull(record.getValue(1, Boolean_YES_NO_LC.class));
     }
 
     @Test
diff --git a/jOOQ/src/main/java/org/jooq/tools/Convert.java b/jOOQ/src/main/java/org/jooq/tools/Convert.java
index be5fe116c1..a8e837dea2 100644
--- a/jOOQ/src/main/java/org/jooq/tools/Convert.java
+++ b/jOOQ/src/main/java/org/jooq/tools/Convert.java
@@ -517,11 +517,16 @@ public final class Convert {
                     return toDate((Long) from, toClass);
                 }
 
+                // [#1448] Some users may find it useful to convert string
+                // literals to Enum values without a Converter
                 else if ((fromClass == String.class) && java.lang.Enum.class.isAssignableFrom(toClass)) {
                     try {
-                        return java.lang.Enum.valueOf(toClass, (String) from);
-                    } catch (java.lang.IllegalArgumentException e) {
-                        throw fail(from, toClass);
+                        @SuppressWarnings("rawtypes")
+                        Class raw = toClass;
+                        return (U) java.lang.Enum.valueOf(raw, (String) from);
+                    }
+                    catch (java.lang.IllegalArgumentException e) {
+                        return null;
                     }
                 }
             }