Karl Jacob Wilhelm Huhn (Latvian: Kārlis Jēkabs Vilhelms Hūns, Russian: Карл Фёдорович Гун, romanized: Karl Fyodorovich Gun;[1] 13 November 1831 – 28 January 1877) was a Baltic-German history, genre and landscape painter[2] from Imperial Russia.

While there, he began taking evening classes at the Imperial Academy of Arts and was admitted as a full student two years later.

[5] In 1863, he was awarded a fellowship that allowed him to travel in Germany, although he eventually settled in Paris and exhibited at the Salon in 1868.

Over the next few years, he finished work started in Paris and focused on paintings of a religious nature.

On the advice of his doctors, he sought out climates with fresher, healthier air than Saint Petersburg, but the disease progressed and, after living in several locations, he died in Switzerland, aged only forty-five.