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HUNTINGTON, DANIEL (1816-1906)

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HUNTINGTON, See also:DANIEL (1816-1906) , See also:American artist, was See also:born in New See also:York on the 14th of See also:October 1816. In 1835 he studied with S. F. B. See also:Morse, and produced " A See also:Bar-See also:Room Politician " and " A Toper Asleep." Subsequently he painted some landscapes on the See also:river See also:Hudson, and in 1839 went to See also:Rome. On his return to See also:America he painted portraits and began the See also:illustration of The See also:Pilgrim's Progress, but his eyesight failed, and in 1844 he went back to Rome. Returning to New York in 1846, he devoted his See also:time chiefly to portrait-See also:painting, although he has painted many genre, religious and See also:historical subjects. He was See also:president of the See also:National See also:Academy from 1862 to 'I87c, and again in 1897–1890. Among his See also:principal See also:works " The Florentine Girl," " See also:Early See also:Christian Prisoners," " The Shepherd Boy of the Campagna," " The See also:Roman Penitents," " Christiana and Her See also:Children," " See also:Queen See also:Mary See also:signing the See also:Death-See also:Warrant of See also:Lady Jane See also:Grey," and " See also:Feckenham in the See also:Tower " (185o), " Chocorua " (186o), " Republican See also:Court in the Time of See also:Washington," containing sixty-four careful portraits (1861), " See also:Sowing the Word " (1869), " St See also:Jerome," " Juliet on the See also:Balcony" (187o), "The Narrows, See also:Lake See also:George"(1871), "See also:Titian," " See also:Clement VII. and See also:Charles V. at See also:Bologna," " See also:Philosophy and Christian See also:Art " (1878), " See also:Goldsmith's Daughter " (1884). His principal portraits are: President See also:Lincoln, in See also:Union See also:League See also:Club, New York; See also:Chancellor Ferris of New York University; See also:Sir Charles See also:Eastlake and the See also:earl of See also:Carlyle, the See also:property of the New York Historical Society; President See also:Van Buren, in the See also:State Library at See also:Albany; See also:James See also:Lenox, in the Lenox Library; See also:Louis See also:Agassiz (1856–1857), See also:William See also:Cullen See also:Bryant (1866), Jelin A. See also:Dix (188o) and See also:John See also:Sherman (1881). He died on the 19th of See also:April 1906 in New York See also:City.

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