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A Doorway in Bushey Church. Hertfordshire Print by William Henry Hunt

The Little Dressmaker

The Little Dressmaker Print by William Henry Hunt

A Doorway in Bushey Church. Hertfordshire

A Fisher Boy Print by William Henry Hunt

A Fisher Boy

Interior of Bushey Church Print by William Henry Hunt

Interior of Bushey Church

The Green Drawing Room of the Earl of Essex at Cassiobury Print by William Henry Hunt

The Green Drawing Room of the Earl of Essex at Cassiobury

A Boy in the Pantry Print by William Henry Hunt

A Boy in the Pantry

The Carpenter's Lunch Print by William Henry Hunt

The Carpenter's Lunch

An interesting Letter Print by William Henry Hunt

An interesting Letter


William Henry Hunt (London 28 March 1790 – 10 February 1864), was an English watercolour painter.[1]

Early life

Hunt was born at 8 Old Belton Street, now 7 Endell Street,[2] and was a resident of Marchmont Street, London and was apprenticed in about 1805 to John Varley, the landscape-painter, with whom he remained five or six years. He exhibited three oil pictures at the Royal Academy in 1807.


Society of Painters in Water Colours

He became connected with the Society of Painters in Water Colours at its beginning, and was elected an associate in 1824 and a full member in 1827. Until the year of his death, he was one of the most prolific contributors to the Society's exhibitions. Many years of Hunt's uneventful but industrious life were spent at Hastings.


Painting style

Hunt was one of the creators of the English school of watercolour painting. His subjects, especially those of his later life, are extremely simple; but, by the delicacy, humour and fine power of their treatment, they rank second to works of the highest art only. Considered technically, his works exhibit all the resources of the watercolour painter's craft, from the purest transparent tinting to the boldest use of gouache, rough paper and scraping for texture. His sense of color is perhaps as true as that of any English artist. He was, says John Ruskin, all in all, the finest ever painter of still life. Several characteristic examples of Hunt's work, as the Boy and Goat, Brown Study and Plums, Primroses and Birds' Nests are in the Victoria and Albert Museum.

In his lifetime, Hunt earned special notice for the accuracy and fine detail of his still lifes with birds' nests, as with the aforementioned Primroses and Birds' Nests—so much so that he acquired the nickname "Bird's Nest" Hunt.[3][4]

A patron of his was Dr Thomas Monro, the Principal Physician of Bedlam.
Death

Hunt died of apoplexy.
References and sources

References

Monkhouse, William Cosmo (1891). "Hunt, William Henry". In Lee, Sidney. Dictionary of National Biography. 28. London: Smith, Elder & Co. pp. 281–283.
Wheatley, Henry B. (1891). London past and present: Its history, associations, and traditions. Vol. I. London: John Murray. Cambridge University Press reprint, 2011. p. 157. ISBN 9781108028066.
[1][dead link]

"William Henry Hunt Chaffinch Nest and May Blossom Oil Painting". Master Works Art Gallery. Retrieved 2012-12-23.

Sources

Works by or about William Henry Hunt in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Hunt, William Henry". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.

External links

Tate Gallery, London

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