All the oil paintings of William Morris Hunt

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ID	Image	Painting(From A to Z)	Details
80209		A landscape painting simply entitled Landscape	A landscape painting simply entitled 'Landscape,' by Boston artist William Morris Hunt. Oil on pressboard, mounted on wood. Date circa 1852 - 1853 cjr
84447		Boston artist William Morris Hunt	Date 1865 cyf
72941		Charles Francis Adams	"Charles Francis Adams," oil on canvas, by the American artist William Morris Hunt. 59 3/8 in. x 34 1/4 in. Harvard University Portrait Collection, gift of C. F. Adams Jr. and his brothers. Courtesy of the President and Fellows of Harvard College. cjr
74754		Charles Francis Adams	English: "Charles Francis Adams," oil on canvas, by the American artist William Morris Hunt. 59 3/8 in. x 34 1/4 in. Harvard University Portrait Collection, gift of C. F. Adams Jr. and his brothers. Courtesy of the President and Fellows of Harvard College. Date 1867 cyf
96216		Girl at the Fountain	1852-1854 oil on canvas cyf
72939		Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz	Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz (1807-1873)," oil on canvas, by the American artist William Morris Hunt. 21 7/8 in. x 18 in. Harvard University Portrait Collection, gift of Louis Agassiz Shaw II. Courtesy of the President and Fellows of Harvard College.
74753		Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz	English: "Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz (1807-1873)," oil on canvas, by the American artist William Morris Hunt. 21 7/8 in. x 18 in. Harvard University Portrait Collection, gift of Louis Agassiz Shaw II. Courtesy of the President and Fellows of Harvard College. Date ca. 1874-1875 cyf
72932		Judge John Lowell	"Judge John Lowell," oil on canvas, by the American artist William Morris Hunt. Harvard University Portrait Collection, gift of the estate of Ralph Lowell. Courtesy of the President and Fellows of Harvard College. cjr
74748		Judge John Lowell	English: "Judge John Lowell," oil on canvas, by the American artist William Morris Hunt. Harvard University Portrait Collection, gift of the estate of Ralph Lowell. Courtesy of the President and Fellows of Harvard College. Date 1872 cyf
84448		Landscape	Date circa 1852 - 1853 cyf
4203		Peasant Girl	1852 Musee d'Orsay, Paris
21128		Peasant Girl (mk06)	1852(possibly Salon of 1852) 3' 9 3/4'' x 2' 11 1/4''(116.2 x 89.7 cm)Gift of Mrs.Roland C.Lincoln,1927 Rf 2618
80208		Portrait of Abraham Lincoln by the Boston artist William Morris Hunt,	Portrait of Abraham Lincoln by the Boston artist William Morris Hunt, oil on panel. The full-length portrait was a study for a later painting of Lincoln by Hunt which was destroyed in the Boston fire of 1872. The portrait was painted soon after the assassination of Lincoln by John Wilkes Booth. The work portrays Lincoln as a sad-faced martyr to the Union cause, which was supported by William Morris Hunt and his brothers. Date 1865(1865) cjr
84368		Portrait of Charles Sumner	Date 1875(1875) Medium Oil on canvas cjr
88221		Portrait of Charles Sumner	1875(1875) Medium Oil on canvas cyf
84774		Portrait of Hamlet	oil on canvas cyf
80483		Portrait of Hamlet,	Portrait of Hamlet, oil on canvas, by Boston artist William Morris Hunt, executed about 1864. The painting descended in the Hunt family until being donated to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Courtesy of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts Date circa 1864 cjr
85211		Portrait of Morris Hunt by his father	1857(1857) Medium Oil cyf
97545		Running repairs	Oil on panel. 17 x 13 cm Date by 1893(1893) cyf
71324		Study of a Female Head	ca. 1872(1872) Oil on canvas 60.8 x 45.7 cm (23.94 x 17.99 in
72435		Study of a Female Head	Date ca. 1872(1872) Medium Oil on canvas Dimensions 60.8 X 45.7 cm (23.94 X 17.99 in) cyf
73832		The Drummer Boy	A photograph of the oil painting "The Drummer Boy," executed by artist William Morris Hunt of Boston, Massachusetts. Courtesy of The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. circa 1862 cjr
75399		The Drummer Boy	A photograph of the oil painting "The Drummer Boy," executed by artist William Morris Hunt of Boston, Massachusetts. Courtesy of The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Date circa 1862 cyf
37379		William Morris Hunt	mk125

William Morris Hunt
1824- 1879 William Morris Hunt Gallery Hunt's father's family were among Vermont's founders and largest landowners; his mother's a family of wealth and prominence in Connecticut. Hunt attended Harvard but withdrew in his junior year. Following the untimely death of his Congressman father from cholera, Hunt's mother Jane took him and his brothers to Switzerland, the South of France and to Rome, where Hunt studied with Couture in Paris and then came under the influence of Jean-François Millet, from whom he learned the principles of the Barbizon school. The Hunt family remained in Europe for a dozen years. Afterwards, leaving Paris, he painted and established art schools at Newport, Rhode Island, where he had relatives, Brattleboro, Vermont, Faial Island in the Azores, where he had family connections and finally at Boston, where he painted, taught art and became a popular portrait painter. The companionship of Millet had a lasting influence on Hunt's character and style, and his work grew in strength, in beauty and in seriousness. He was among the biggest proponents of the Barbizon school in America, and he more than any other turned the rising generation of American painters towards Paris. On his return in 1855 he painted some of his most handsome canvases, all reminiscent of his life in France and of Millet's influence. Such are The Belated Kid, Girl at the Fountain, Hurdy-Gurdy Boy, and others ?C but the public called for portraits, and it became the fashion to sit for Hunt; among his best paintings of this genre are those of William M. Evarts, Mrs Charles Francis Adams, the Rev. James Freeman Clarke, William H. Gardner, Chief Justice Shaw and Judge Horace Gray. Sadly, many of Hunt's paintings and sketches, together with five large Millets and other art treasures collected by him in Europe, were destroyed in the Great Boston Fire of 1872.