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Hunt, William Morris

Hunt, William Morris

(1824–79) painter; born in Brattleboro, Vt. (brother of Richard Morris Hunt). He studied in Germany (1845–46) and Paris (1846–56) before settling in Boston in 1862. His work was influenced by French artists of the time, and his genre paintings are romantic and somewhat sentimental, as seen in The Bathers (1877).
The Cambridge Dictionary of American Biography, by John S. Bowman. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1995. Reproduced with permission.
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