Realistic Schools: American Barbizon school

The American Barbizon School would be a number of painters and magnificence partly influenced through the French Barbizon School, a paintings realistic school. American Barbizon artists concentrated on painting technique that is rural landscapes often including peasants or farm animals.


William Morris Hunt was the very first American to work within the Barbizon style while he directly trained with Jean-François Millet in 1851-1853. When he left France, Hunt established a studio in Boston and worked in the Barbizon manner, bringing the style for the United States.
The Barbizon approach was generally not accepted until the 1880s and reached its pinnacle of popularity inside the 1890s.

Artists
• Henry Golden Dearth
• Thomas Eakins
• Childe Hassam
• Winslow Homer
• William Morris Hunt
• Wilson Irvine
• George Inness
• John Francis Murphy
• Henry Ward Ranger
• Henry Tanner
• Horatio Walker
• Alexis Jean Fournier