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Daniel Huntington (artist)

{{Short description|American painter}}

{{infobox person|

| image = Daniel Huntington artist.jpg

| birth_date = {{birth date|1816|10|04}}

| birth_place = New York City, New York, U.S.

| death_date = {{death date and age|1906|04|19|1816|10|04}}

| death_place = New York City, New York, U.S.

| education = Yale University
Hamilton College

| parents = Benjamin Huntington, Jr.
Faith Trumbull Huntington

| relations = Benjamin Huntington (grandfather)

}}

Daniel Huntington (October 4, 1816{{snd}}April 19, 1906) was an American artist who belonged to the art movement known as the Hudson River School and later became a prominent portrait painter.

Early life

Huntington was born in New York City, New York on October 4, 1816. He was the son of Benjamin Huntington, Jr. and Faith (née Trumbull) Huntington. His paternal grandfather was Benjamin Huntington, delegate at the Second Continental Congress and first U.S. Representative from Connecticut. His maternal grandfather was Jedediah Huntington (1743–1818) of Norwich, Connecticut, who served as a General in the American Revolutionary War.

He studied at Yale with Samuel F.B. Morse, and later with Henry Inman. From 1833 to 1835, he transferred to Hamilton College in Clinton, New York, where he met Charles Loring Elliott, who encouraged him to become an artist.

Career

Huntington first exhibited his work at the National Academy of Design in 1836. Subsequently, he painted some landscapes in the tradition of the Hudson River School. Huntington made several trips to Europe, the first in 1839 traveling to England, Rome, Florence and Paris with his friend and pupil Henry Peters Gray. On his return to America in 1840, he painted his allegorical painting "Mercy's Dream", which brought him fame and confirmed his interest in inspirational subjects. He also painted portraits and began the illustration of The Pilgrim's Progress. In 1844, he went back to Rome.

Returning to New York around 1846, he devoted his time chiefly to portrait-painting, although he painted many genre, religious and historical subjects.{{EB1911|inline=1 |wstitle=Huntington, Daniel |volume=13 |page=953}} From 1851 to 1859, he was in England. He was president of the National Academy of Design from 1862 to 1870, and again in 1877–1890. He was also vice president of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.Looking at Pictures in the Grand Salon: a guide to the artists. Smithsonian American Art Museum, Renwick Gallery.

File:Self-portrait_by_Daniel_Huntington,_1891.JPG

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File:Daniel Huntington - Italy - 1973.41 - Smithsonian American Art Museum.jpg

Personal life

Huntington was married to Harriet Sophia Richards (1821–1893), a daughter of Charles H. Richards and Sarah (née Hayward) Richards.{{cite book |title=Who's Who in New York City and State |date=1914 |publisher=L.R. Hamersly Company |page=380 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5exHAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA380 |access-date=30 May 2020 |language=en}} Together, they were the parents of Charles Richards Huntington (1847–1915), a merchant.{{cite news |title=Died |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1915/10/29/archives/obituary-1-no-title.html |access-date=30 May 2020 |work=The New York Times |date=29 October 1915}} He was the brother-in-law of fellow painter Cornelius Ver Bryck.{{Cite book |last1=Dearinger |first1=David Bernard |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PHH45aYubp4C&dq=Cornelius+Ver+Bryck&pg=PA305 |title=Paintings and Sculpture in the Collection of the National Academy of Design: 1826-1925 |last2=Design (U.S.) |first2=National Academy of |date=2004 |publisher=Hudson Hills |isbn=978-1-55595-029-3 |pages=305 |language=en}}

Huntington died in New York City on April 19, 1906.{{cite news |title=DANIEL HUNTINGTON DIES.; Well-Known Artist Passes Away at His Home in This City. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1906/04/20/archives/daniel-huntington-dies-wellknown-artist-passes-away-at-his-home-in.html |access-date=30 May 2020 |work=The New York Times |date=20 April 1906}} He was buried at Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn.{{cite web |last1=Gotwals |first1=Jenny |last2=Markham |first2=Sandra |title=Guide to the Daniel Huntington Study Portrait Photographs Collection ca. 1870-1890 |url=http://dlib.nyu.edu/findingaids/html/nyhs/huntington/scopecontent.html |website=dlib.nyu.edu |publisher=New-York Historical Society |access-date=30 May 2020}}

Works

Among his principal works are:

  • "The Florentine Girl"
  • "Early Christian Prisoners"
  • "The Shepherd Boy of the Campagna"
  • "The Roman Penitents"
  • "Christiana and Her Children"
  • "Queen Mary signing the Death-Warrant of Lady Jane Grey"
  • "Feckenham in the Tower" (1850)
  • "Chocorua" (1860)
  • "Republican Court in the Time of Washington" containing sixty-four careful portraits (1861)
  • "Philosophy and Christian Art" (1868)
  • "Sowing the Word" (1869)
  • "St Jerome, Juliet on the Balcony" (1870)
  • "The Narrows, Lake George" (1871)
  • "Clement VII. and Charles V. at Bologna"
  • "Goldsmiths Daughter" (1884)

His principal portraits are:

;Gallery

File:Huntington .jpg|Portrait of David Olifant Vail (1834-1865), Private collection

File:Brooklyn Museum - The Republican Court (Lady Washington's Reception Day) - Daniel Huntington - overall.jpg|The Republican Court (Lady Washington's Reception Day), Brooklyn Museum, 1861

File:Daniel Huntington Philosophy and Christian Art.jpg|An engraving after Huntington's Philosophy and Christian Art, 1868

File:Seated Male Nude (Daniel Huntington).jpg|Seated Male Nude, 1838

File:Peter Buell Porter.jpg|Peter Buell Porter (1773-1844), US politician, general of the War of 1812 and Secretary of War.,1873

References

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External links

{{Commons category|Daniel Huntington}}

  • {{find a Grave|33568583|Daniel Huntington}}
  • [http://collection.cooperhewitt.org/people/18041943/ A collection of Huntington's work] as held in the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum
  • [http://www.historicnewengland.org/collections-archives-exhibitions/online-exhibitions/JewelryHistory/checklist/related-objects Historic New England]. Huntington's portrait of Mary Wheelwright Codman, 1845
  • [http://dlib.nyu.edu/findingaids/html/nyhs/huntington/index.html The Daniel Huntington Study Portrait Photographs Collection] at the New-York Historical Society
  • [http://www.bedfordfineartgallery.com/Huntington.html Bedford Fine Art Gallery: Daniel Huntington]

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