Alfred William Hunt
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Alfred William Hunt, (November 15, 1830 – May 3, 1896), was an English painter. He was son of Andrew Hunt, a landscape painter.
He was born in Liverpool. He began to paint while at the Liverpool Collegiati School; but as the idea of adopting the artist's profession was not favoured by his father, 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 did not, however, abandon his artistic practice for, encouraged by Ruskin, he exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1854, and thenceforward regularly contributed landscapes in oil and water-colour to the London and provincial exhibitions. In 1861 he married, gave up his Fellowship, and was elected Associate of the Royal Society of Painters in Water Colours, receiving full membership three years later. His work is distinguished mainly by its exquisite quality and a poetic rendering, of atmosphere.
His wife Margaret Hunt wrote several works of fiction; and one of her daughters, Violet Hunt, is well known as a novelist.
See Frederick Wedmore, Alfred Hunt, Magazine of Art (1891); Exhibition of Drawings in Water Color by Alfred William Hunt, Burlington Fine Arts Club (1897).
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