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Born March 31, 1824 • Brattleboro • Vermont
Died September 8, 1879 (aged 55) • New Hampshire
Movement / Style Barbizon school • Romanticism

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William Morris Hunt.
Hillside with Trees, oil on canvas by William Morris Hunt, 1872–78; in the Art Institute of Chicago.
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American painter
J.M.W. Turner: The Fighting Temeraire Tugged to Her Last Berth to Be Broken Up, 1838
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Richard Parkes Bonington: Grand Canal, Venice
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Anton Mauve
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James McNeill Whistler
James McNeill Whistler
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John Singer Sargent
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self-portrait by Grant Wood
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