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HUNT, WILLIAM HENRY (17901864)

This article appears in Volume V13, Page 937 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: HOR-I25
HUNT, WILLIAM HENRY (17901864) , English water-colour painter, was born near
Long
  Acre, London, on the 28th of
March
  1790. He was apprenticed about 1805 to John Varley, the landscape-painter, with whom he remained five or six years, exhibiting three oil pictures at the Royal
Academy
  in 1807. He was early connected with the Society of Painters in Water-colour, of which
body
 , then in a transition state, he was elected associate in 1824, and full member in 1827. To its exhibitions he was until the year of his death one of the most prolific contributors. Many years of Hunt's uneventful and industrious
life
  were passed at Hastings. He died of apoplexy on the loth of
February
  1864. Hunt was one of the creators of the English school of water-colour
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 water-colour painter's craft, from the purest transparent tinting to the boldest use of
body
 -colour, rough
paper
  and scraping for texture. His sense of colour is perhaps as true as that of any English artist. " He was," says Ruskin, " take him for all in all, the finest painter of still life that ever existed." 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.


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