William Morris Hunt ART FOR SALE

1824 Brattleboro, Vermont - 1879 Appledore, Isle of Shoals, New Hampshire. Known for: Portrait, landscape, genre and figure painting.

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One of the most influential and respected artists in Boston during the late 19th century, William Morris Hunt was a leading proponent of the French Barbizon School of painting, the precursor of Impressionism. He was a landscape, genre, and portrait painter, a highly respected teacher, and widely read writer. His engaging personality combined with his talents to make him the leading arbiter of aesthetics in New England where he was one of the first artists to inject French influence. Hunt was born in Brattleboro, Vermont and was raised in New Haven, Connecticut. He was from a prominent family that included his brother Richard Morris Hunt, the architect of the Vanderbilt houses "Biltmore" and "The Breakers." William Hunt had a lively... Read full biography

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William Morris Hunt - Art for Sale (2 available)

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Moonlight

Type:Painting

Size:12.00" x 8.13"

Medium:Oil

Signed:Unsigned

Edition:1/1

Notes:

In Moonlight, William Morris Hunt has expertly rendered the impression of the glowing orb overhead as it pierces the pitch-black darkness and cloud cover, and reflects in the surface of the water below, casting shadows of a pair of trees in the foreground.

Price: $19,500. Please contact Vose Galleries

Master Lawrence Brooks

Type:Painting

Year:c. 1875

Size:17.00" x 14.00"

Medium:Oil

Signed:Unavailable

Notes:

Outfitted in a French sailors suit, Lawrence Books is dressed in the Little Lord Fauntleroy manner popular in the late 1800's. William Morris Hunt brought both French art and culture to the Boston Brahmin and here is a truly beautiful example of those roots. Research accompanies the painting.

Price: Please contact Excelsior Fine Art