ALFRED

See also:

• WILLIAM
• WILLIAM (1143-1214)
• WILLIAM (1227-1256)
• WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
• WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
• WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
• WILLIAM, 13TH

WILLIAM

See also:

• ALFRED WILLIAM HUNT (183o-1896)
• HUNT, HENRY (1i73-1835)
• HUNT, HENRY JACKSON (1819-1889)
• HUNT, JAMES HENRY LEIGH (1784-1859)
• HUNT, ROBERT (1807-1887)
• HUNT, THOMAS STERRY (1826-1892)
• HUNT, WILLIAM HENRY (1790—1864)
• HUNT, WILLIAM HOLMAN (1827-1910)
• HUNT, WILLIAM MORRIS (1824-1879)

HUNT (183o-1896)  , English painter, son of Andrew Hunt, a landscape painter, was born at Liverpool in 183o . He began to paint while at the Liverpool Collegiate 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 . His career there was distinguished; he won the Newdigate Prize in 1851, and became a Fellow of Corpus in 1858 . He did not, however, abandon his artistic practice, for, encouraged by Ruskin, he exhibited at the Royal Academy in 18J4, 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 an 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 . Hunt died on 3rd May 1896 . Mrs A . W . Hunt(nee Margaret Raine) 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 Colour by Alfred William Hunt, Burlington Fine Arts Club (1897) .