Description:
Framed print or etching of a young woman with long, flowing dark hair and large earrings, looking off to her right and wearing an Italian renaissance-style dress while holding a jug decorated with a classical-style scene of men in relief around the body. The print is inscribed "D. Huntington / Florence 1883" on the lower right corner; over "Defective proof / To my friend / J. Wells Champney / Nov' - 89 / with regards of the etcher / J.D.S." inscribed in pencil just under the print. Daniel Huntington (1816-1906) was a well-known NY artist who studied with Samuel F. B. Morse and Henry Inman in New York in the mid 1830s; in Europe, mainly Italy, in the 1840s; and worked in England and Europe as a portraitist throughout most of the 1850s. Although his work encompasses a wide variety of subjects, Huntington was best known for his portraiture. A prolific artist, he produced some twelve hundred works, of which he is credited with over a thousand portraits. He became very successful, serving as president of the National Academy of Design from 1862 to 1869 and again from 1877 to 1891; a founder of the Century Association and its president from 1879 to 1895; and one of the prime movers in the founding of the Metropolitan Museum, where he served as a trustee and vice president for thirty three years, 1871-1903. James Wells Champney (1843-1903) was a popular artist of his period who worked both in New York and Deerfield, Massachusetts, and also travelled extensively in England and Europe. Huntington and Champney undoubtedly knew each other; the identity of the etcher, "J.D.S." is for James D. Smilie. This print was acquired from Miss Marion Stebbins who was the daughter Benjamin Zabina Champney (1865-1950) of Deerfield, to whom Mrs. Elizabeth Champney gave a number of Champney works in 1921.
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