Olivia Buckminster Lothrop (Mrs. Lewis William Tappan, Jr.), 1860

William Morris Hunt

William Morris Hunt - Haying by Oxen (ca. 1876)

William Morris Hunt (American, 1824-1879) Marguerite, 1870 Museum of Fine Arts Boston

Mrs. Robert C. Winthrop by William Morris Hunt, 1861

Oil Painting, Mid 1860s, American.

By William Morris Hunt.

Portraying Olivia Buckminster Lothrop in a Brown Dress.

MFA Boston.

William Morris Hunt (American, 1824–1879), Self-Portrait

William Morris Hunt / “Girl with Cat” / 1856 / Museum of Fine Arts Boston

Girl with kitten. William Morris Hunt.

Detroit Publishing Company, 1900.

Photograph of a painting at Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Detroit Publishing Company photograph collection (Library of Congress)

MWW Artwork of the Day (12/12/22) William Morris Hunt (American, 1824–1879) Girl Reading (1853) Oil on canvas, 54.6 x 40.6 cm. The Boston Museum of Fine Arts

“Girl Reading,” a quiet image of a teenaged girl seated in a dark interior studying a book, was inspired by Millet’s paintings of young French peasant women sewing or spinning by lamplight. In those pictures, the women are working at domestic tasks after a long day of working in the fields or tending their flocks. Millet’s humane naturalism elicits the viewer’s sympathy. In Hunt’s painting, the warm light, soft paint handling, and delicate, subdued colors similarly indicate the artist’s affection for his subject. She, however, is clearly middle class. Hunt has transported Millet’s scene from a peasant’s humble cottage to an American parlor.

For more of this artist's work see this MWW exhibit/gallery: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.551896188249088&type=3

Received from Charleston, SC

William Morris Hunt (American, 1824-1879)

Girl Reading, 1853

Oil on Canvas, 54.6 x 40.6 cm (21 ½ in x 16 in)

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Gift of Mrs. Charles W Dabney, 93.1455

French Peasant Woman with Pig (1853) by William Morris Hunt

William Morris Hunt (1824-1879)

The Drummer Boy, 1862

edited

William Morris Hunt (American, 1824-1879) Paysanne La Marguerite, 1852 Musée d'Orsay

Polls in the same series :

- Pre-raphaelite Models

Carnegie Hall reopened after a $50 million facelifting on December 15, 1986.

William Morris Hunt (American, 1824 - 1879) - self portrait