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Title: American painters: with eighty-three examples of their work engraved on wood
Year: 1879 (1870s)
Authors: Sheldon, George William, 1843-1914
Subjects: Painters Painting, American
Publisher: New York : D. Appleton and company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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in Europe. In 1855 he went back to Boston, where, and at Newport, his
home has been ever since.
If ever there existed a friendship between two artists, Mr. Hunt and M.
Millet were friends ; and if ever one artist influenced another, William Morris
Hunt was influenced by Jean Francois Millet. In the atelier of Couture, Mr.
Hunt learned art-rules; in the companionship of Millet, he obtained inspira-
tion and regeneration. The true interpretation of Mr. Hunt's best works is
possible only to the sympathetic and thorough student of Millet's works.
The impression made upon Mr. Hunt by his pupilage under Couture is get-
ting fainter every day ; but the impression made upon him by his intercourse
with Millet is deep in the structure of his mind, growing with his growth and
strengthening with his strength. When Millet was unknown in this country,
Mr. Hunt was his devotee; when even France herself had not yet recognized
his genius, Mr. Hunt was buying his pictures. At the same time, it is truet
hat Mr. Hunt is an entirely original artist, and that every picture of his is a
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S U M M E R

p. 89

From a Painting by William Morris Hunt

spontaneous and independent product. Nature reveals herself in the same
dress and with the same facial expression to both men; and both men respond
heartily to her and woo her.
The most important contribution to the literature of art by an American
is Mr. Hunt's " Talks on Art—" a book which Mr. Hunt himself did not write.
For years he had been in the habit of meeting a class of drawing-students in
Boston, and, in a free aud off-hand fashion, telling them what lie knows and
believes concerning the subject that chiefly interested them. A member of
this class, Miss Helen M. Knowlton, herself an accomplished and successful
young painter, jotted down on stray scraps of paper many of the utterances of
her teacher, and sent them to a Boston journal. Afterward, with his consent,
she gathered many of them into a volume which she called "Talks on Art,"
and has seen circulated extensively in America, and reprinted, and, for the
most part, very favorably reviewed, in England.

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