Daniel Huntington

An engraving after Huntington's Philosophy and Christian Art (1868)

Daniel Huntington (October 4, 1816 – April 19, 1906), American artist, was born in New York City, New York, the son of Benjamin Huntington, Jr. and Faith Trumbull Huntington; his paternal grandfather was Benjamin Huntington, delegate at the Second Continental Congress and First U.S. Representative from Connecticut. In 1835 he studied with SFB Morse, and produced "A Bar-Room Politician" and "A Toper Asleep." Subsequently he painted some landscapes on the Hudson river, and in 1839 went to Rome. On his return to America he painted portraits and began the illustration of The Pilgrim's Progress, but his eyesight failed, and in 1844 he went back to Rome. Returning to New York around 1846, he devoted his time chiefly to portrait-painting, although he has painted many genre, religious and historical subjects. He was president of the National Academy from 1862 to 1870, and again in 1877-1890. Among his principal works are:

• "The Florentine Girl"
• "Early Christian Prisoners"
• "The Shepherd Boy of the Campagna"
• "The Roman Penitents"
• "Christiana and Her Children"
• "Queen Mary signing the Death-Warrant of Lady Jane Grey"
• "Feckenham in the Tower" (1850)
• "Chocorua" (1860)
• "Republican Court in the Time of Washington" containing sixty-four careful portraits (1861)
• "Philosophy and Christian Art" (1868)
• "Sowing the Word" (1869)
• "St Jerome, Juliet on the Balcony" (1870)
• "The Narrows, Lake George" (1871)
• "Clement VII. and Charles V. at Bologna"
• "Goldsmiths Daughter" (1884)

His principal portraits are:

• "President Lincoln" in Union League Club, New York
• "Chancellor Ferris of New York University
• "Sir Charles Eastlake and the earl of Carlyle," the property of the New York Historical Society
• "President Van Buren" in the State Library at Albany
• "James Lenox" in the Lenox Library
• "Louis Agassiz" (1856-1857)
• "William Cullen Bryant" (1266)
• "Jefferson Davis" (1874)
• "John Adams Dix" (1880)
• "John Sherman" (1881)
• "Alexander Ramsey" (1881)

This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain.