1600-1670 Dutch Saloman van Ruysdael Gallery   Related Paintings of Saloman van Ruysdael :. | Philip II kj | Zorah Standing (mk35) | Scene from The Last of the Mohicans Cora Kneeling at the Feet of Tamenund (mk13) | Abraham Leading Isaac to Sacrifice | In a Villa at the Seaside |
Related Artists:
beaudin

Louis Joseph Anthonissen
Belgian Painter, 1849-1913
William Henry Furness
(1802-1896) was an American clergyman, theologian, reformer and abolitionist. Following the American Civil War, he raised funds for Black schools in the South, including Morehouse College. A graduate of the Theological Department of Harvard University, Furness became the Minister of the First Unitarian Church of Philadelphia at the age of 22. A close friend of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Furness presided over a period marked by the growth and increasing prosperity for First Church. A fiery abolitionist, Furness was a supporter of the rights of all segments of society, including African-Americans and Jews. He also lived to see the construction of the current church building in 1885 in the role of Minister Emeritus. Rev. Furness was the father of painter William Furness, Shakespearean scholar Horace Howard Furness, architect Frank Furness, and author and translator Annis Furness Lee.