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Queensland Family Trees
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 1830 - 1896 (65 years)
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| Name |
Alfred William Hunt |
| Born |
15 Nov 1830 |
Liverpool  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Career |
He was an English painter. He was son of Andrew Hunt, a landscape painter. He began to paint while at the Liverpool Collegiate School. However at his father's suggestion he went in 1848 to Corpus Christi College, Oxford to study classics. His career there was distinguished; he won the Newdigate Prize in 1851 for his poem "Nineveh", and became a Fellow of Corpus in 1857. He exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1854, and afterwards contributed landscapes in oil and water-colour to London and other provincial exhibitions. In 1862 was elected as an Associate of the Old Water-Colour Society, receiving full membership in 1864. He was associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. [From 'Find A Grave']
Alfred William Hunt was a landscape painter and watercolourist who was first associated with the Liverpool School of Painters, but later went on to have a successful career in London. His watercolours often combine Pre-Raphaelite precision with Turneresque atmosphere.
Hunt was the son of a Liverpool landscape painter, and although he was precociously talented in art, his parents wished him to enter the church. He went up to Corpus Christi College, Oxford in 1848, won the Newdigate prize for poetry in 1851, and between 1853 and his marriage in 1861, held an Oxford fellowship. Meanwhile he had become an Associate of the Liverpool Academy in 1854, the year he also began to exhibit paintings at the Royal Academy, London. In 1856 Ruskin in Academy Notes praised one of his works there as 'The best landscape I have ever seen in the exhibition for many a day - uniting most subtle finish and watchfulness of nature, with real and rare power of composition.' After his marriage Hunt moved to London, and devoted himself to painting.
He was elected Associate of the Old Watercolour Society in 1862 and Member in 1864. He painted throughout Britain and also in France and Switzerland. He painted his atmospheric studies from nature, but increasingly his finished watercolours were developed and elaborated in the studio. His daughter, Violet Hunt, the novelist, lover of Ford Madox Brown and writer of The Wife of Rossetti, gave an account of his life and working method in the second annual volume of the Old Watercolour Society's Club (1925). |
| Died |
3 May 1896 |
| Probate |
2 Jul 1896 |
London |
| HUNT Alfred William of 10 Tor Gardens Campden hill Kensington Middlesex landscape painter died 3 May 1896 Probate London 2 July to Margaret Hunt widow Effects £25957 13s.6d. |
| Buried |
Glades of Remembrance, Brookwood Cemetery |
| Person ID |
I37 |
Mark Fogg-Elliot |
| Last Modified |
13 Oct 2013 |
| Family |
Margaret Raine, b. 1831, Durham , d. 1912 (Age 81 years) |
| Children |
| | 1. Isabel Violet Hunt, b. 28 Sep 1862, Durham , d. 16 Jan 1942, South Lodge, Campden Hill, London (Age 79 years) |
| | 2. Venetia Margaret Hunt, b. 4 Aug 1864, Durham , d. 2 Jul 1946, Pembrokeshire (Age 81 years) |
| + | 3. Sylvia Kingsley Hunt, b. 8 Sep 1865, Durham district , d. 23 Apr 1920 (Age 54 years) |
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| Last Modified |
12 Oct 2013 |
| Family ID |
F16 |
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