Daniel Huntington

Daniel Huntington (October 4, 1816 – April 19, 1906) His maternal grandfather was Jedediah Huntington (1743–1818) of Norwich, Connecticut, who served as a General in the American Revolutionary War. From 1851 to 1859, he was in England. He was president of the National Academy of Design from 1862 to 1870, and again in 1877–1890.

Personal life Huntington was married to Harriet Sophia Richards (1821–1893), a daughter of Charles H. Richards and Sarah (née Hayward) Richards. Together, they were the parents of Charles Richards Huntington (1847–1915), a merchant.

Huntington died in New York City on April 19, 1906. He was buried at Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn.

Works Among his principal works are: "The Florentine Girl" "Early Christian Prisoners" "The Shepherd Boy of the Campagna" "The Roman Penitents" "Christiana and Her Children" "Queen Mary signing the Death-Warrant of Lady Jane Grey" "Feckenham in the Tower" (1850) "Chocorua" (1860) "Republican Court in the Time of Washington" containing sixty-four careful portraits (1861) "Philosophy and Christian Art" (1868) "Sowing the Word" (1869) "St Jerome, Juliet on the Balcony" (1870) "The Narrows, Lake George" (1871) "Clement VII. and Charles V. at Bologna" "Goldsmiths Daughter" (1884)

His principal portraits are: "President Lincoln" in Union League Club, New York "Chancellor Ferris of New York University General J.G. Totten (1857)at Berkshire Museum "Sir Charles Eastlake and the earl of Carlyle," the property of the New York Historical Society "President Van Buren" in the State Library at Albany "James Lenox" in the Lenox Library "Louis Agassiz" (1856-1857) "William Cullen Bryant" (1866) "Julia Livingston Delafield" (1873) "Jefferson Davis" (1874) "John Adams Dix" (1880) "John Sherman" (1881) "Alexander Ramsey" (1881) "Chester A. Arthur" (1885)

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