Early Life, Family and Training William Gedney Bunce was born in 1840 in Hartford, Connecticut. He was the son of James M. Bunce and Elizabeth Chester. His early years in Hartford provided the foundation for a life spent observing the light and form of the landscape. In 1856, he began receiving formal art instruction under Julius Theodore Busch, a painter from Dresden who had settled in Hartford. The training Bunce received was stead…