Dennis Miller Bunker

Dennis Miller Bunker ( November 6, 1861 in New York, NY, † December 28, 1890 in Boston, Massachusetts) was an American Impressionist painter.

With 17 years bunker in 1878 a student of William Merritt Chase. With his recommendation, he moved in 1881 to almost four years in the studio of Jean -Léon Gérôme in Paris.

In the fall of 1885 Bunker returned to the U.S. and settled in Boston, Mass.. down. There, he was appointed the same year to the faculty of painting at the " Cowles School of arts". And He will teach there until 1890 and influenced just with his impressionist style very many students. As one of the most important here is to call Isabella Stewart Gardener, whose palace " Feway Court" was continued together with art collection after her death in 1924 as Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. But painters like William McGregor Paxton owe much bunker.

His teaching at the Cowles School of arts interrupted bunker in summer 1888, when he painted landscapes together with John Singer Sargent in Calcott, Salop ( GB) plein air. From this time on bunker style of painting was always dissolved, although still quite the influence of his teacher Gérôme remains recognizable with its strict accuracy.

At the age of 29 years the first American Impressionist Dennis Miller Bunker died on December 28, 1890 in Boston, Massachusetts to an untreated flu.

Works (selection)

George Augustus Gardner

Jessica

The Station

On the Banks of the Oise

Nets and Sails Drying

Marshland, Medfield

In the Greenhouse