- father, Dr. Rochcliffe performing Divine
Service in Cottage of Jocelyn Joliffe (1847); Flight of Madelaine and Porphyro (1848); Rienzi vowing to avenge his Brother's Death (1849); Converted British Family sheltering a Christian Missionary from Druids (1850); Valentine rescuing Sylvia (1851); Hireling Shepherd (1852); Claudio and Isabella, Our English Coasts (1853); Awakened Conscience, Light of the World (1854); Scapegoat, Finding of the Saviour in the Temple (1860); King of Hearts (1863); Afterglow in Egypt (1865); London Bridge on the Entry of Princess Alexandra, Isabella and the Pot of Basil (1868); Shadow of Death (1873), Manchester Art Gallery; Flight into Egypt, Italian Child, Plains of Esdraelon, Street Scene near Cairo (1877); The Ship (1878); Miss Flamborough (1882); Portrait of Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1884); Bride of Bethlehem, Triumph of the Innocents (1885).—Portfolio (1871), 34; Art Journal (1860), 158, 182; Rossetti, Fine Art, 233.
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HUNT, WILLIAM MORRIS, born in
Brattleborough,
Vt., March 31,
1824, died at the
Isles of Shoals,
Sept. 8, 1879.
Portrait, landscape,
and figure
painter; studied
at the Royal
Academy, Düsseldorf,
in 1846, with the intention of becoming
a sculptor. Nine months later became
the pupil for a short time of Couture
in Paris, after which he went to Barbizon to
study with Millet, who influenced his work
through life. In 1855 returned to the
United States, opened a studio in Newport,
and a little later settled permanently in
Boston, where he had many scholars. Visited
Paris in 1867. Works: Head of a
Jewess; Priscilla, Thomas Wigglesworth,
Boston; Farmer's Return (1849); Sheep
Shearing at Barbizon; Fortune-Teller;
Prodigal Son; Girl with a Kitten; Girl
Reading; Girl Spinning; Violet Girl; Marguerite;
Hurdy-Gurdy Boy; Drummer-Boy
(1861); Bugle-Call (1864); Gloucester Harbour;
Newton Lower Falls Coast Scene at
Magnolia—Mass.; Dead in the Snow; The
Lambs, Mrs. G. W. Long. Portraits: Chief
Justice Shaw, Essex County Bar; Allan
Wardner; Horace Gray (1865), Chief Justice
Gray; Mrs. S. G. Ward (1867); of the
Artist (1879), Peter C. Brooks, Jr.; of his
Wife; Mrs. Charles Francis Adams; Mrs.
G. W. Long; Wm. H. Gardiner; Hon. W.
M. Evarts, Miss Mason. The Flight of
Night, and the Discoverer, mural decorations
in the Capitol at Albany (1878).—Am. Art
Rev. (1880), 49, 93; Tuckerman, 447; Talks
on Art, by W.M.H., edited by Helen M.
Knowlton, two series (Boston, 1875, 1882).
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HÜNTEN, EMIL JOHANNES, born in
Paris, Jan. 19, 1827.
Battle painter, pupil
of Flandrin and of
École des Beaux Arts
under Vernet, then
in Antwerp under
Wappers and Dyckmans;
settled (1851)
in Düsseldorf, and
became a pupil of
Camphausen. In 1864
he accompanied the army during part of the
winter campaign in Schleswig, and the
Army of the Main in 1866; in 1870-71 he
visited many of the battle-fields in France.
Medals in Berlin (1872), Vienna (1873).
Member of Berlin Academy since 1878.
Works: Prussian Cuirassiers dashing over
a Bridge (1852-53); Skirmish near Hennersdorf
(1855); Skirmish at Reichenbach
(1856), Provinzial Museum, Hanover; Battle
of Zorndorf (1858); Patrol of Cuirassiers,
General von Nostitz at Oeversee, Austrian
Officer with Flag of Truce, Storming Düppel
Earthworks (1865); Reconnoitring at
Sadowa (1866); Episode from Battle of
Crefeld, Blücher, Kiel Gallery; From the
Time of Frederic the Great, Stettin Museum;
Skirmish of Patrol near Thorstedt;