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WILLIAM MORRIS HUNT (1824-1879)

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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 939 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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WILLIAM See also:MORRIS See also:HUNT (1824-1879)  , See also:American painter, was See also:born at See also:Brattleboro, See also:Vermont, on the 31st of See also:March 1824 . His See also:father's See also:family were large landowners in the See also:state . He was for a See also:time (1840) at Harvard, but his real See also:education began when he accompanied his See also:mother and See also:brother to See also:Europe, where he studied with See also:Couture in See also:Paris and then came under the See also:influence of See also:Jean See also:Francois See also:Millet . The companionship of Millet had a lasting influence on See also:Hunt's See also:character and See also:style, and his See also:work See also:grew in strength, in beauty and in seriousness . He was the real introducer of the See also:Barbizon school to See also:America, and he more than any other turned the rising See also:generation of American painters towards Paris . On his return in r855 he painted some of his most beautiful pictures, all reminiscent of his See also:life in See also:France and of Millet's influence . Such are " The Belated Kid," " Girlat the See also:Fountain," " Hurdy-Gurdy Boy," &c . But the public called for portraits, and it became the See also:fashion to sit to him, among his best paintings in this See also:kind being those of See also:William M . See also:Evarts, Mrs See also:Charles See also:Francis See also:Adams, the Rev . See also:James See also:Freeman See also:Clarke, William H . See also:Gardner, See also:Chief See also:Justice See also:Shaw and See also:Judge See also:Horace See also:Gray . Unfortunately many of his paintings and sketches, together with five large Millets and other See also:art treasures collected by him in Europe, were destroyed in the See also:great See also:Boston See also:fire of 1872 .

Among his later See also:

works American landscapes predominated . They also include the " Bathers "—twice painted—and the allegories for the See also:senate chamber of the State Capitol at See also:Albany, N.Y., now lost by the disintegration of the See also:stone panels on which they were painted . Hunt was drowned at the Isles of Shoals on the 8th of See also:September 1899 . His See also:book, Talks about Art (See also:London, 1878), is well known . His brother, See also:RICHARD See also:MORRIS HUNT (1828-1895), the famous architect, was born in Brattleboro, Vermont, on the 31st of See also:October 1828 . He studied in Europe (1843-1854), mainly in the Ecole See also:des See also:Beaux Arts at Paris, and in 1854 was appointed inspector of works on the buildings connecting the Tuileries with the Louvre . Under See also:Hector Lefuel he designed the Pavillon de la Bibliotheque, opposite the Palais Royal . In 1855 he returned to New See also:York, and was employed on the See also:extension of the Capitol at See also:Washington . He designed the See also:Lenox Library, the See also:Stuyvesant and the See also:Tribune buildings in New York; the theological library, and See also:Marquand See also:chapel at See also:Princeton; the Divinity See also:College and the See also:Scroll and See also:Key See also:building at Yale; the See also:Vanderbilt See also:mausoleum on Staten See also:Island, and the See also:Yorktown See also:monument . For the See also:Administration Building at the See also:World's Columbian Exposition at See also:Chicago in 1893 Hunt received the See also:gold See also:medal of the See also:Institute of See also:British Architects . Among the most noteworthy of his domestic buildings were the residences of W . K .

Vanderbilt and See also:

Henry G . Marquand in New York See also:City; See also:George W . Vanderbilt's See also:country See also:house at Biltmore, and several of the large " cottages " at See also:Newport, R.I., including " See also:Marble House " and " The Breakers." He was one of three See also:foreign members of the See also:Italian Society of St See also:Luke, an honorary and corresponding member of the Academie des Beaux Arts and of the Royal Institute of British Architects, and a See also:Chevalier of the See also:Legion of See also:Honour . He was the first to command respect in foreign countries for American See also:architecture, and was the See also:leader of a school that has established in the See also:United States the manner and the traditions of the Beaux Arts . He took a prominent See also:part in the See also:founding of the American Institute of Architects, and, from 1888, was its See also:president . His See also:talent was eminently See also:practical; and he was almost equally successful in the ornate style of the See also:early See also:Renaissance in France, in the picturesque style of his comfortable villas, and the monumental style of the Lenox Library . There is a beautiful memorial to Hunt in the See also:wall of Central See also:Park, opposite this building, erected in 1898 by the associated art and architectural See also:societies of New York, from designs by See also:Daniel C . See also:French and See also:Bruce See also:Price . He died on the 31st of See also:July 1895 .

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