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for Andrew Fisher Bunner
American, 1841 - 1897
Bunner was born into a New York family that included writer H.C. Bunner and watercolorist Rudolph Bunner. He studied at New York's Cummings School of Design and attended the NAD Antique School for the 1862-3 year. He registered again for the 1865-6 season, but Academy records indicate that he did not attend. Bunner began exhibiting at the National Academy in 1865, and two years later he showed in the first exhibition of the American Water Color Society. Around 1871, he appears to have left for Europe, where he studied in Germany, France, and Italy. Augustus Saint-Gaudens is known to have sculpted a portrait relief of the artist in Paris in July 1878, but by 1879, Bunner was back in New York. The following year, the Academy elected him an Associate member. He stayed in the United States only until 1882, when he moved to Venice for four years. Although he also painted scenes from Holland, Germany, New York, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia, he became known for his Venetian specialty. Late in life, Bunner spent time on eastern Long Island, where he painted with William Merritt Chase.
