Emerson, Edward Waldo

William Morris Hunt was the leading painter of mid-19th century Boston, Massachusetts. Hunt studied painting for five years under Thomas Couture in Paris, and painted with Jean-Francois Millet and Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, from whom he learned the principles of the Barbizon style of painting. Hunt established art schools at Newport, Rhode Island, Brattleboro, Vermont, and at Boston, and gained a very popular reputation as a portrait painter.