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HUNT, WILLIAM HENRY (1790—1864)

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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 937 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HUNT, See also:WILLIAM See also:HENRY (1790—1864) , See also:English See also:water-See also:colour painter, was See also:born near See also:Long See also:Acre, See also:London, on the 28th of See also:March 1790. He was apprenticed about 1805 to See also:John See also:Varley, the landscape-painter, with whom he remained five or six years, exhibiting three oil pictures at the Royal See also:Academy in 1807. He was See also:early connected with the Society of Painters in Water-colour, of which See also:body, then in a transition See also:state, he was elected See also:associate in 1824, and full member in 1827. To its exhibitions he was until the See also:year of his See also:death one of the most prolific contributors. Many years of Hunt's uneventful and industrious See also:life were passed at See also:Hastings. He died of See also:apoplexy on the loth of See also:February 1864. Hunt was one of the creators of the English school of water-colour See also:painting. His subjects, especially those of his later life, are extremely See also:simple; but, by the delicacy, See also:humour and See also:fine See also:power of their treatment, they See also:rank second to See also:works of the highest-See also:art only. Considered technically, his works exhibit all the resources of the water-colour painter's See also:craft, from the purest transparent tinting to the boldest use of body-colour, rough See also:paper and scraping for texture. His sense of colour is perhaps as true as that of any English artist. " He was," says See also:Ruskin, " take him for all in all, the finest painter of still life that ever existed." Several characteristic examples of Hunt's See also:work, as the " Boy and See also:Goat," " See also:Brown Study " and " Plums, Primroses and Birds' Nests " are in the See also:Victoria and See also:Albert Museum.

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