Alfred William Hunt
Alfred William Hunt (born November 15, 1830 in Liverpool , † May 3, 1896 in London ) was an English landscape painter .
Life
Alfred William Hunt was the son of the landscape painter Andrew Hunt (1790–1861), from whom he received his first lessons. After studying at Oxford University , he decided to paint at the age of 25. His work caught the attention of John Ruskin , who became his mentor and encouraged him to continue painting.
His landscapes and marine landscapes, mostly borrowed from the coastal regions of England and Scotland , are of deep poetic feeling, of great, realistic conception and especially masterful in aerial perspective, water and trees; the foreground has been treated briefly at times.
In 1861 he had married the successful writer Margaret Raine and lived with her in "Campden Hill", the house that had once belonged to the Pre-Raphaelite Holman Hunt , to whom he was not related. They had three daughters: Violet , Venetia and Sylvia.
In 1864 he was elected to the Old Water Color Society. By 1870 he had created hundreds of oil paintings and watercolors.
Works (excerpt)
Some of his best oil paintings include:
- Flood and Wind (1860)
- The Disputed Land (1862)
- Morning mist at Loch Maree (1870)
- Goring Lock on the Thames (1871)
- Moon rise over Bamborough (1872)
- My Summer Days (1876)
- On the Yorkshire coast (1877)
his best watercolors include:
- The Durham Furnaces
- Loch Torridon
- Streatley on the Thames
- Bamborough from the south side
- The nut harvest
literature
Web links
- Paintings by Alfred William Hunt on BBC
- Artcyclopedia Alfred William Hunt
- Past Auction Results
- Alfred William Hunt, RWS 1830-1896: An Overview
- Hunt's grave in Woking, Surrey: Brookwood Cemetery
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SURNAME | Hunt, Alfred William |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English landscape painter |
DATE OF BIRTH | November 15, 1830 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Liverpool |
DATE OF DEATH | May 3, 1896 |
Place of death | London |