Daniel Huntington
Daniel Huntington (born October 14, 1816 in New York , † April 19, 1906 there ) was an American painter .
Live and act
Huntington became a pupil of the painter and inventor of the electromagnetic telegraph apparatus Samuel FB Morse and later of the painter Henry Inman in 1835 .
In 1839 he went to Florence, where he painted several genre pictures with a particularly humorous content, e. B. The sleeping reveler and the pub politician . Then he went to Rome and painted a picture from the time of the first persecution of Christians. He later returned to New York for a short time, visited Rome for the second time in 1844, and from then on devoted himself to ideal religious representations, which became his main subject, in which he moved with deep feeling and plain, simple truth.
Works
This includes:
- Christiana flees from the valley of death with her children,
- The dream of grace
- The alms donation,
- Piety and folly
- The Samaritan woman at the well and
- Communion of the sick.
He also painted several landscapes and numerous portraits. In 1876 he was elected President ( PNAD ) of the National Academy of Design in New York for the second time .
He also painted the picture of US Senator and Speaker of the House of Representatives Robert Charles Winthrop .
Individual evidence
- ^ Nationalacademy.org: Past Academicians "H" / Huntington, Daniel NA 1840; PNAD 1862-69; 1876-91 ( Memento from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed June 26, 2015)
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| SURNAME | Huntington, Daniel |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 14, 1816 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | New York City |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 19, 1906 |
| Place of death | New York City |