Background
Hunt was born on November 15, 1830 in Liverpool, England, the son of Andrew Hunt, a landscape painter.
Hunt was born on November 15, 1830 in Liverpool, England, the son of Andrew Hunt, a landscape painter.
Hunt attended Liverpool Collegiate School, where he began to paint. In 1848 he went to Corpus Christi College, Oxford to study classics.
Hunt's career there was distinguished; he won the Newdigate Prize in 1851 for his poem "Nineveh", and became a Fellow of Corpus in 1853. He did not, however, abandon his artistic practice for, encouraged by Ruskin, he exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1854, and afterwards contributed landscapes in oil and water-colour to London and other provincial exhibitions. In 1861 he gave up his Fellowship, and in 1862 was elected as an Associate of the Old Water-Colour Society, receiving full membership in 1864. His work is distinguished mainly by its exquisite quality and a poetic rendering of atmosphere. He was associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, and the extraordinary detail apparent in his landscapes and the careful rendering of grass, leaves and trees is a consequence of this. He died on May 3, 1896.
Hunt was an English painter notable for his works.
Member of the Old Water-Colour Society (1864)
Hunt married Margaret Raine Hunt in 1861, who wrote several works of fiction; and one of her daughters, Violet Hunt, was known as a novelist.
He was an English landscape-painter.
