George Hunter (painter)
George Leslie Hunter (born August 7, 1877 in Rothesay , Isle of Bute , † December 6, 1931 in Glasgow ) was a British late Impressionist painter from the group of Scottish colorists .
After immigrating to California with his family at the age of 13 , Hunter earned a living as a painter and illustrator . His early work was destroyed in the 1906 earthquake in San Francisco . Shortly afterwards he returned to Scotland and lived there in Glasgow. His first exhibition was at the Reid Gallery in 1916 . His work was later shown regularly at the Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts .
During the 1920s, Hunter became known as a Scottish colorist along with John Duncan Fergusson , Francis Cadell and Samuel Peploe . Her works were influenced to varying degrees by the painting technique, composition and coloring of the French Impressionists and Fauvists .
Hunter's best-known landscape paintings are scenes from Fife and southern France.
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| SURNAME | Hunter, George |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hunter, George Leslie (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 7, 1877 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rothesay , Isle of Bute |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 6, 1931 |
| Place of death | Glasgow |