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'''William Morris Hunt''' (1824 – 1879) was an American Barbizon School/Tonalist [[painter]] trained with [[Jean-François Millet]]; he started the American [[Barbizon School]] in Boston and was founder of the Arts and Crafts movement. Hunt was loosely associated with the group
[[Pre-Raphaelites|Pre-Raphaelite]]. In 1862, he settled permanently in Boston where the demand for his portraits grew as did the size and popularity of his classes... Although one of New England's finest [[portrait]]ists for over twenty years, Hunt made no secret of his difficulties in painting convincing [[landscape]]s. [http://americanart.si.edu/collections/search/artist/?id=2359]

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Hunt introduced the works of [[Camille Corot]], [[Theodore Rousseau]], and the Barbizon school to the Boston society circles in which he moved, thereby helping to turn a rising generation of American painters toward Paris and away from the national style epitomized by the [[The Hudson River School|Hudson River School]] landscape painters. [http://global.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/276979/William-Morris-Hunt]
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[[File:Hunt Niagara Falls 1878.jpg|thumb|350px|center|William Morris Hunt, Niagara Falls, 1878.]]


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File:The Jewess by William Morris Hunt, ca. 1850.jpg|The Jewess, ca. 1850.
File:Portrait of Agnes Elizabeth Clafllin by William Morris Hunt, 1875.jpg|[[Portrait]] of Agnes Elizabeth Clafllin, 1875.
File:Gloucester Harbor by William Morris Hunt, 1877.jpg|Gloucester Harbor, 1877.
File:Niagara Falls by William Morris Hunt, ca. 1878.jpg|Niagara Falls, ca. 1878.
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== External links ==

*[http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/hunt_william_morris.html William Morris Hunt.]
*[http://americanart.si.edu/collections/search/artist/?id=2359 William Morris Hunt.]
*[http://www.the-athenaeum.org/art/list.php?m=a&s=tu&aid=1006 Artworks.]

 


[[Category:American Painters]]
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