William Morris Hunt (March 31, 1824 – September 8, 1879) was an American painter.
Born into the embassy Hunt relations of Vermont, he trained in Paris later than the realist Jean-François Millet and studied below him at the Barbizon artists’ colony, before founding a same group on his return to America. He became Boston’s leading portrait and landscape painter, also dynamic as a lithographer and sculptor. In 1871 he was elected into the National Academy of Design as an Associate Academician. Many of his works were destroyed in the Great Boston Fire of 1872. Another industrial accident was the deterioration of the stone panels in the State Capitol at Albany, New York, on which a number of his murals had been painted. This is believed to have led to his depression and presumed suicide.
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