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ALFRED WILLIAM HUNT (183o-1896)

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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 934 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ALFRED See also:WILLIAM See also:HUNT (183o-1896)  , See also:English painter, son of See also:Andrew See also:Hunt, a landscape painter, was See also:born at See also:Liverpool in 183o . He began to paint while at the Liverpool Collegiate School; but as the See also: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 . His career there was distinguished; he won the See also:Newdigate See also:Prize in 1851, and became a See also:Fellow of Corpus in 1858 . 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-See also:colour to the See also:London and provincial exhibitions . In 1861 he married, gave up his Fellowship, and was elected an See also:Associate of the Royal Society of Painters in Water-See also:Colours, receiving full membership three years later . His See also:work is distinguished mainly by its exquisite quality and a poetic rendering of See also:atmosphere . Hunt died on 3rd May 1896 . Mrs A . W . 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 . 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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