William Morris Hunt

William Morris Hunt ANA
William Morris Hunt, 1879
Born	March 31, 1824 Brattleboro, Vermont, U.S.
Died	September 8, 1879(1879-09-08) (aged 55) Isles of Shoals, New Hampshire, U.S.
Resting place	Prospect Hill Cemetery
Education	Thomas Couture and Jean-François Millet
Movement	American Barbizon School
Parent	Jonathan Hunt (father)
Relatives	Leavitt Hunt (brother) Richard Morris Hunt (brother) Thaddeus Leavitt (grandfather)
Family	Hunt family of Vermont

William Morris Hunt (March 31, 1824 – September 8, 1879) was an American painter.

Born into the political Hunt family of Vermont, he trained in Paris with the realist Jean-François Millet and studied under him at the Barbizon artists’ colony, before founding a similar group on his return to America. He became Boston's leading portrait and landscape painter, also working as a lithographer and sculptor. In 1871 he was elected to the National Academy of Design as an Associate Academician. Many of his works were destroyed in the Great Boston Fire of 1872. Another disaster was the deterioration of the stone panels in the State Capitol at Albany, New York, on which a number of his murals had been painted. This is believed to have led to his depression and presumed suicide.