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See also: English painter, son of Andrew See also: Hunt, a landscape painter, was See also: born at Liverpool in 183o
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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 See also: father, he went in 1848 to Corpus Christi See also: College, See also: Oxford
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His career there was distinguished; he won the See also: Newdigate Prize in 1851, and became a See also: Fellow of Corpus in 1858
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He did not, however, abandon his See also: artistic practice, for, encouraged by See also: Ruskin, he exhibited at the Royal See also: Academy in 18J4, and thenceforward regularly contributed landscapes in oil and See also: water-colour to the See also: London and provincial exhibitions
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In 1861 he married, gave up his Fellowship, and was elected an Associate of the Royal Society of Painters in Water-See also: Colours, receiving full membership three years later
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His See also: work is distinguished mainly by its exquisite quality and a poetic rendering of atmosphere
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Hunt died on 3rd May 1896
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Hunt(nee See also: Margaret Raine) wrote several See also: works of fiction; and one of her daughters, See also: Violet Hunt, is well known as a novelist
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See See also: Frederick See also: Wedmore, " See also: Alfred Hunt," See also: Magazine of See also: Art (1891); See also: Exhibition of Drawings in Water Colour by Alfred See also: William Hunt,
See also: Burlington See also: Fine Arts See also: Club (1897)
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