DANIEL

See also:

• HUNTINGTON
• DANIEL HUNTINGTON (1816-1906)
• HUNTINGTON, FREDERIC DAN (1819–1904)

HUNTINGTON (1816-1906)  , American artist, was born in New York on the 14th of October 1816 . In 1835 he studied with S . F . B . Morse, and produced " A Bar-Room Politician " and " A Toper Asleep." Subsequently he painted some landscapes on the river Hudson, and in 1839 went to Rome . On his return to America he painted portraits and began the illustration of The Pilgrim's Progress, but his eyesight failed, and in 1844 he went back to Rome . Returning to New York in 1846, he devoted his time chiefly to portrait-painting, although he has painted many genre, religious and historical subjects . He was president of the National Academy from 1862 to 'I87c, and again in 1897–1890 . Among his principal works " The Florentine Girl," " Early Christian Prisoners," " The Shepherd Boy of the Campagna," " The Roman Penitents," " Christiana and Her Children," " Queen Mary signing the Death-Warrant of Lady Jane Grey," and " Feckenham in the Tower " (185o), " Chocorua " (186o), " Republican Court in the Time of Washington," containing sixty-four careful portraits (1861), " Sowing the Word " (1869), " St Jerome," " Juliet on the Balcony" (187o), "The Narrows, Lake George"(1871), "Titian," " Clement VII. and Charles V. at Bologna," " Philosophy and Christian Art " (1878), " Goldsmith's Daughter " (1884) . His principal portraits are: President Lincoln, in Union League Club, New York; Chancellor Ferris of New York University; Sir Charles Eastlake and the earl of Carlyle, the property of the New York Historical Society; President Van Buren, in the State Library at Albany; James Lenox, in the Lenox Library; Louis Agassiz (1856–1857), William Cullen Bryant (1866), Jelin A . Dix (188o) and John Sherman (1881) . He died on the 19th of April 1906 in New York City .