Huddle, William H., 1847 - 1892. (Artisan or Artist entry)
Name Variations
Huddle, William Henry.
Occupation(s)
Artists ; Blacksmiths
Associated Dates
b. 1847 - d. 1892 ; active in Texas ca. 1866 - 1892
Associated Places
Austin (Travis County, Tex.)
Artisan or Artist (subject)
Huddle, William H.
Hill Texas Archive Research Notes
Born in Virginia, Huddle served as a cavalryman for the Confederacy for two years and came to Paris, Texas in 1866 where he worked in his father's gun smith shop. Huddle returned to Virginia to study painting with his cousin, Flavius J. Fisher, and in 1875, he helped establish the Art Students League of New York with Henry Arthur McArdle and Robert Jenkins Onderdonk. Huddle moved to Austin in 1876 and began teaching at St. Mary's Academy and painting many of his portraits of Texas officials including General Thomas Jefferson Rusk, Sam Houston, and Governor James S. Hogg after 1886.
