William Henry Huddle: Texas Capitol Artist

Around him were future artists whose names quickly bring up samples of their works on the internet. They comprise a nice role of "Whos Was Who" of American art of that time and include the President of the NAD in , Thomas Worthington Whittredge, a veteran of three trips to the far west to sketch work possibilities.

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Huddle enrolled into both the antique and life classes, but little did he realize that the NAD was in dire financial straits, a condition that would split the training artists and teachers in less than eight months. On May 24, the group decided to create a fee-oriented Arts Students League, but Wilmarth would not receive pay.

By the next fall students were crowding the quickly expanding facilities.

Austin: Texas Capitol - "David Crockett" by William Henry Huddle

Most likely Huddle remained through the spring session of , because the Austin "American Statesman" referred to him moving to central Texas by June 19, Huddle died just as he was preparing an exhibit of several works for the Chicago Worlds Columbian Exposition in the spring of His chance to widen an appeal for his work vanished. While Huddle today is not considered an artist of note, a writer for the "Austin Statesman" in September of was excited about the the "exceptional" artist in town.

His article stated that Huddles portrait of Governor Hubbard, on display at a local bookstore, ". Portrait and historical-scene painter. Born in Wytheville, Virginia, Huddle attended school there and in Tennessee.

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He Served as a Confederate cavalryman for two years and came to Texas in when his family settled in Paris. Fisher, who had painted portraits of prominent individuals in Washington, D. In Huddle moved to Austin where he taught at St. Mary's Academy, followed by a stay in Europe when he studied portrait painting at the Royal Bavarian Academy, Munich Many of Huddle's paintings were done after his return to Austin in , including a series of twenty-three portraits.

Many of the portraits were done from faded photographs. Burnet, Sam Houston, Mirabeau B.

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Lamar, and Anson Jones and the seventeen governors who held office between and J. Davis, Richard Coke, Richard B. Roberts, John Ireland, and Lawrence S. Graves was elected to the House. Millions of tourists have walked over a magnificent piece of art right under their feet in the south foyer.

Installed in as a replacement for the original clay tile flooring, the terrazzo floor is a celebration of Texas' centennial, marking the year anniversary of the state's independence from Mexico. Through the blend of colored marble chips and a wet binding similar to concrete, the terrazzo floor commemorates the twelve important Texas battles fought during the Texas Revolution, the Mexican-American War, and the Civil War. From the floor to the star at the peak, the Capitol rotunda stands about feet. A late addition to the original Capitol, the rotunda and its spiralling domed ceiling are now one of the most photographed architectural features of the building.

The first floor of the rotunda features the Great Seal of the Republic of Texas. The seals of the six sovereign nations that governed all or parts of Texas before its independence surround the Republic's symbol. Portraits of Texas governors line the walls of the first floor and spiral up all the way to the fourth floor where you'll find the first presidents of the Republic. Start from the top or the bottom, by walking the floors around the rotunda you'll take a virtual trip through the history of Texas leadership.

Painted by Irish-born Texas artist Henry Arthur McArdle, these outstanding works of art are McArdle's dramatic interpretations of the events, rather than historically accurate representations. The many portraits that line the walls of the Chambers depict key figures in Texas history. A mid-nineteenth century painting of Stephen F.

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Austin by an unknown artist takes pride of place in the chamber. Austin is flanked by Jefferson Davis and John H. Davis, the president of the defeated Confederates States of America, was a major proponent of the annexation of Texas to the United States in while serving as a Senator from Mississippi.

Reagan served as a delegate to the Texas Constitutional Convention that framed the Constitution of He went on to serve in the U. Huddle completed it within a year of its conception, researching and painting its component parts as discrete entities before assembling them into a finished whole.

His painting of Hood's Texas Brigade at the battle of the Wilderness was destroyed in the Capitol fire. He died of a stroke in Austin on March 23, , and was buried there in Oakwood Cemetery. All copyrighted materials included within the Handbook of Texas Online are in accordance with Title 17 U.

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