William Morris Hunt
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William Morris Hunt was an American painter. Born into the political Hunt family of Vermont, he trained in Paris with the realist Jean-François Millet and studied under him at the Barbizon artists’ co
William Morris Hunt, 1879
Portrait of William Morris Hunt by Emanuel Leutze (about 1845)
William Morris Hunt self-portrait, 1866
The Bathers, 1877, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Isles of Shoals
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The Isles of Shoals are a group of small islands and tidal ledges situated approximately 6 miles off the east coast of the United States, straddling the border of the states of Maine and New Hampshire
William Morris Hunt
…Fields. Joining the group as guest was Erastus Brigham Bigelow, a founder of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. William Morris Hunt died at the Isles of Shoals, New Hampshire, in 1879, apparently a suicide. Hunt had gone to the New Hampshire shore to recover from a crippling depression. But he continued to…
Childe Hassam. Isles of Shoals, Broad Cove, 1911. Oil on canvas. Honolulu Museum of Art.
Maine, View of Appledore, 1879, William Morris Hunt, charcoal on paper
White Island Light, c. 1910
Gosport Chapel, 1905