Richard Morris Hunt (1827-95), (painting).

Richard Morris Hunt (1827-95), (painting).

Sargent, John Singer, 1856-1925, painter.

Richard Morris Hunt (1827-95), (painting).

100 x 55 in. (254 x 139.7 cm)

(Lower right:) John S. Sargent 1895 signed

Full-length portrait of Richard Morris Hunt (1827-1895) standing near a staircase in the paved courtyard of the entrance pavilion at Biltmore. He holds an overcoat in his right arm, his left hand rests on an urn, and his left foot is raised on a step.

Portrait male -- Hunt, Richard Morris -- Full length

Occupation -- Art -- Architect

Architecture -- Domestic -- Biltmore

Architecture -- Other -- Courtyard

Biltmore House, Asheville, North Carolina

Formerly in the collection of Vanderbilt, George, until 1914.

Cecil, Cornelia Amherst, until 1978.

Ormond, Richard and Elaine Kilmurray, "John Singer Sargent: complete paintings; volume 2, Portraits of the 1890s," New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2002, no. 319.

McKibbin, David, "Sargent's Boston," Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, 1956.

Antiques (Apr. 1980): pg. 865.

Ormond, Richard and Elaine Kilmurray, "John Singer Sargent: complete paintings; volume 2, Portraits of the 1890s," New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2002, pg. 102.

Antiques (Apr. 1980): pg. 865.

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