A rich and successful painter of portraits during the Belle Époque, did he paint any proper fine art?
Category Archive: Painting
Brother of the architect Richard Morris Hunt, he painted portraits of the ‘Boston Brahmins’, then landscapes in Barbizon style.
A summary chronology of the major milestones in the history of oil painting, with copious illustrations from the masters.
He kept a pictorial record of his wife and children in more formal portraits too. Here’s a selection.
He seems to have loved painting children. Here is his family, at leisure and play, in informal views, often in pastel.
Finally, we start to understand how oil paint works – just as Modernist painters seem determined to stop it from working at all.
Incorporating the captioned images into milestone writing spaces, which form the spine of the hypertext. And a quick preview of the developing timeline.
His second vast canvas almost brings him to financial and artistic failure, but he recovers.
Converting from fairly linear HTML to interconnected hypertext – aiming to tell the several stories of the history of oil painting.
Full membership of the Royal Academy, a gigantic landscape of the sublime, and several important commissions: the peak of his career.
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