The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-20
DANIEL HUNTINGTON IS DEAD.
PRESIDENT FOR 12 YEARS OF THE
NATIONAL ACADEMY.

Oldest Artist OF Note in This City Passes
Away In His Goth Year-Student Under
3. r. ID. Morse and Inman-Painted
Portrait OF George Kingsland in 1905.
Daniel Huntington, the artist, died late
on Wednesday night at his homo, 40 East
Twentieth street. He was stricken with
paralysis about a month ago and the effects
Of this, with the infirmities Of age. caused
his death. Only a few Of his most intimate
friends knew Of his illness.
Daniel Huntington was the oldest artist
Of note In this city and was we'll known
as a portrait painter. For many years
he a almost invariably selected as the
artist Whenever an organization or the
oity OF State wished q portrait Of some
official or prominent citizen, and many
examples Of his work are to be found in
the city and State buildings, m the rooms
Of the Chamber Of Commerce and In varl-
Gus libraries and institutions Of learning.
Critics said of him that the conspicuous
merit Of bis portraits lay in their truth
and simplicity.
Mr.. Huntlng ton was a native New Yorker.
He vas born on October IA, 1915. a son Of
Benjamin II. and Faith Trumbull Hunt
ington, both Of whose ancestors were
among the early settlers in Connecticut
and were prominent in the government
and affairs of that State and in the wal OF
the Revolution.
Daniel Huntington studied at Hamilton
College for a time, and there he became
acquainted with Charles l.. Elliott, from
whom he imbibed his love of art. Leaving
college, he studied art in the studios Of
Prof. Samuel F. B.. Morse, who was then
president Of the National Academy OF
Design. ana later Mr.. Hunting on was a
pupil Of Inman. He produced while a
appreciated, and he declded to adopt paint
ing as his life work. At first he yielded
to public demand for genre work, Two
Of his earliest paintings to attract attention
were "A Bar Room Politician and "A
months in the Highlands of the Hudson,
where he painted views neal ~Verplanok's,
the Dunderberg Mountain and Rondout
Creek. Three years later he went to Rome
to study, and while there he painted his
Prisoners" in 1880 and "Tbe Shepherd Boy
Of the Campagna" in 1910.
Soon after his return to this country he
began a series OF pictures illustrating The
Pilgrims Progress but his eyes failed and
he returned to Europe in 1874. There, his
had finished "1he Roman P~enitents.'
In 1910 he was elected a member Of the
National Academy Of Design and was
president OF that organization from 1852
to 1859 and again from 1877 to 1892.
Returning from abroad in ls46, he began
to devote himself more and more to por-
traits and soon ttained O prominent place
among the artists of this country, although
he still found time to do other work.
His portrait Of Abraham Lincoln is owned
by the Union League Club and New York
University has his likeness Of Chancellor
Ferris, while the New York Historical So
ciety has his portrait Of Sir Charles East
lake and the Earl of Carlisle. His portrait
Of President Van Buren, is in the State Lii
brary in Albany; the Lenox Library owns
his likeness of James Lenox, and in the City
Hall are pictures Of Mayors Duane, Var
lex and Livingston which are the work of
his brush. Gems. Grant, Sherman and Sheri-
dan sat for him, as did Admiral Dupont,
Harrison, John Sherman, William Cullen
Bryant, William E. Dodge, William H..
Appleton, Robert c.. Winthrop, Bishop Pot
ter, join A Dix and many other we'll known
New Workers.. about forty Of whose por-
traits are in the collection Of the New York
Chamber Of Commerce.
Aside from his portraits he painted other
pictures which attracted attention. among
them Mrs. Washington's Reception" qseD
which A T, Stewart sent to the Paris Expo
sition in 1867; Sowing the Word" (ls69
which belonged to Arson P. Stokes, and
Titan" and Charles v. at Bologna, y which
won c~ommendation at the Philadelphia Gem
tennial in 1870. His Columbus" was owned
by John Lenox. Some OF his other pictures
are: Queen Mary Signing the Death War
rant Of Lady Jane Grey,""LAdy Jane Grey
andIFeckenham in the Tower, "~'Chooorua.'
4St. Jerome" Juliet or the Balcony
THE Narrows, Lake George, "Goldsmith's
Daughter and The Atlantic Cable Pro-
jectors.'
In spite Of his advanced age, Mr.. Hunting.
ton continued at work until a few weeks
ago, and when he was 80 years old it was
said that he painted as we'll as ever. His
last portrait, that Of George Kingsland,
was completed last December and is now
in the New York Yacht Club. In 1874? he
married Harriet S. Richards. They had one
son, Charles r.. Huntington, who survives.
MIR. Huntington the elder was one of the
founders of the Century Club, a director
OF the Metropolitan Museum Of Art, Of which
he was vice-president for several years; a
member of the American Geogra phical So
ciety md the New York Historical Society
The funeral will be held in Calvary
Church at 10 O'Clock tomorrow morning
and the interment will be in Greenwood.
Ogilby-HOehling.