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William Morris Hunt (1824-1879)
Aliases: William-Morris Hunt
Professions: Genre Painter; Portrait painter; Lithographer; Painter
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WILLIAM MORRIS HUNT (American, 1824-1879) GLOUCESTER HARBOR oil on cradled panel in a period carved and gilt wood Acanthus leaf frame; 20 1/4 x 31 inches; Provenance: Mr. & Mrs. Gordan Prince; By descent to current owner Note: William Morris Hunt,
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William Morris Hunt (American, 1824-1879), Ophelia, Monogrammed ""WMH"" l.r., Condition: Lined, craquelure., Oil on canvas, 32 x 25 1/2
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William Morris Hunt
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William Morris Hunt (American, 1824-1879), The Wooded Path, Signed and dated ""WmM Hunt 1862"" l.r., Condition: Lined (including minute
William Morris Hunt Biography
(b Brattleboro, VT, 31 March 1824; d Appledore, Isles of Shoals, NH, 8 Sept 1879). Painter, sculptor and teacher. While a student at Harvard College, he exhibited precocious talents in the arts and studied with John Crookshanks King (1806–82), a sculptor working in Boston. In 1843 Hunt went to Europe with his mother and siblings, his father having died of cholera in 1832. They visited Paris and Rome, where he studied briefly under the American Neo-classical sculptor Henry Kirke Brown (1814–86). In 1845 he toured the Near East with his family and Thomas Gold Appleton, a patron and essayist from Boston, visiting Corfu and Athens en route . Later that year, he took the advice of Emanuel Leutze and enrolled in the Düsseldorf Academy, but he remained there only nine months. In 1846 Hunt went to Paris with the intention of joining the workshop of the sculptor James Pradier, but he was inspired to become a painter after seeing Thomas Couture’s The Falconer (1845; Toledo, OH, Mus. A.). Hunt never abandoned his sculptural training, however, and continued to produce work such as the plaster relief of the Horses of Anahita (c. 1848; New York, Met.). From 1847 to 1852 he worked in Couture’s studio, where he rapidly became a favourite pupil. An example of his early figure painting is La Marguerite (c. 1852; Paris, Louvre), which reflects Couture’s influence in its centralized composition, its definition of form through broad masses of light and dark and its rich and elegant textures. Using the same techniques as Couture, Hunt created shaded areas with smooth sepia turpentine washes and contrasted these with dramatic highlights of thick impasto. Couture was a consummate technician, and his pupil assimilated and quickly mastered his doctrine of the primacy of style.
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WILLIAM MORRIS HUNT American (1824-1879) View of the Ames Family Home oil on board, signed lower right and dated 76.
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WILLIAM MORRIS HUNT American (1824-1879) Young Girl oil on canvas, unsigned.
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William Morris Hunt (1824-1879)
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William Morris Hunt (American, 1824-1879) Young Woman on a Balcony Monogrammed "WMH." l.r. Oil on canvas, 16 1/2 x 12 in. (41.9 x 30...
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William Morris Hunt (American, 1824-1879) The Boot Black Monogrammed "WMH" l.r., titled and inscribed on the stretcher, identified o...
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WILLIAM MORRIS HUNT (American, 1824-1879) NUDE signed and dated Wm M. Hunt 1868 on verso canvas; oil on canvas; 17 x 13 1/2 inches
