In 1835 he studied with SFB Morse, and produced "A Bar-Room Politician" and "A Toper Asleep." Subsequently he painted some landscapes on the Hudson river, and in 1839 went to Rome. On his return to America he painted portraits and began the illustration of The Pilgrim's Progress, but his eyesight failed, and in 1844 he went back to Rome.
Returning to New York around 1846, he devoted his time chiefly to portrait-painting, although he has painted many genre, religious and historical subjects. He was president of the National Academy from 1862 to 1870, and again in 1877-1890. Among his principal works are:
"The Florentine Girl"
"Early Christian Prisoners"
"The Shepherd Boy of the Campagna"
"The Roman Penitents"
"Christiana and Her Children"
"Queen Mary signing the Death-Warrant of Lady Jane Grey"
"Feckenham in the Tower" (1850)
"Chocorua" (1860)
"Republican Court in the Time of Washington" containing sixty-four careful portraits (1861)
Huntington took this advice and studied in 1835 with Samuel F. Morse and Henry Inman, a founder of the National Academy of Design, and became an Associate of the National Academy of Design in 1839, and an Academician in 1840.
Huntington, to whom we are inclined to give the highest place among our artists of the highest school, sent five pictures, exclusive of three portraits, any one of which would have asserted his pre-eminence in this department of his art.
Huntington was held by the members of his own profession, is evinced by his election to the presidency of the National Academy of Design, as their third president, the first two having been Prof.
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