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Birth
1824 (Brattleboro, Vermont)
Death
1879 (Appledore, Isle of Shoals, New Hampshire)
Lived/Active
Massachusetts
Often Known For
portrait, landscape, genre and figure painting
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Impressionists Pre 1940
Tonalism
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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
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