French Realist Painter, 1814-1875   Related Paintings of Jean-Franc Millet :. | The Gleaners | Couseuse Endormie | Peasand spreading manure | The Angelus | The Sheep Meadow Moonlight |
Related Artists:
Jose Mercedes Ortega
painted Dona Ines de Suarez in defending the city of Santiago in 1897
August Xaver Karl von Pettenkofen
painted Zigeunerkinder in 1855
William Henry Furness
(1802-1896) was an American clergyman, theologian, reformer and abolitionist. Following the American Civil War, he raised funds for Black schools in the South, including Morehouse College. A graduate of the Theological Department of Harvard University, Furness became the Minister of the First Unitarian Church of Philadelphia at the age of 22. A close friend of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Furness presided over a period marked by the growth and increasing prosperity for First Church. A fiery abolitionist, Furness was a supporter of the rights of all segments of society, including African-Americans and Jews. He also lived to see the construction of the current church building in 1885 in the role of Minister Emeritus. Rev. Furness was the father of painter William Furness, Shakespearean scholar Horace Howard Furness, architect Frank Furness, and author and translator Annis Furness Lee.