William Morris Hunt (1824 - 1879) American
Gouache on Paper
Measure 17"in H x 12 3/4"in W and 29"in H x 24 3/4"in W with frame

Known for: Portrait, landscape, genre and figure painting
Biography: William Morris Hunt was one of the most famous, well-respected American painters during the early and middle 19th century. His artistic life was observed, revered and followed by many painters in New York and New England, and because of his vast intellect and wisdom regarding fine art, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston often followed his suggestions about what to purchase for its collection of European and American art. Hunt was born on March 31, 1924, in Brattleboro, Vermont, and he died at the Isle of Shoals, New Hampshire of an apparent suicide on November 8, 1879. He studied at Harvard University; in Dusseldorf, and in Paris from 1847-1853, and in Barbizon with Millet from 1853-1855. From 1850-1870, Hunt was Boston's leading portrait painter and in 1979 the Museum of Fine Arts gave him a retrospective. Hunt was responsible for spreading the influence of Jean Francois Millet and the French Barbizon painters in the United States, and he was a renowned teacher, muralist and portrait painter who conducted classes in Boston from 1868 until his death in 1879. He is given credit for highly influencing the artistic life of Winslow Homer, John Joseph Enneking and Childe Hassam. His teaching philosophies were recorded in Helen Knowlton's Talks on Art volumes of 1875 and 1883 and in Knowlton's Life of William M. Hunt in 1899. Some historians believe that when Hunt's commission to paint murals at the Albany State Capitol fell through, the artist was destitute and depressed, and that this led to his apparent suicide. Nevertheless, he is still revered as one of the finest painters to have come from New England because his brushwork was beautifully orchestrated and he had complete knowledge about how best to paint a portrait or a landscape.

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