Alfred william hunt painter

British painter

Alfred William HuntRWS (15 November 1830 – 3 May 1896), was a British painter.

He was son of the landscapist Andrew Hunt.

Biography

Hunt was born in Liverpool in 1830.

Alfred William Hunt was a landscape painter and watercolorist who was first associated with the Liverpool School of Painters, but later had a successful London.

Alfred William Hunt was a landscape painter and watercolorist who was first associated with the Liverpool School of Painters, but later had a successful London.

Alfred William Hunt RWS, was a British painter.

Alfred William Hunt RWS (15 November – 3 May ), was a British painter.

Alfred William Hunt (–) was one of Britain's most original landscape painters and watercolorists of the second half of the nineteenth century.

Born and raised in Liverpool, Alfred William Hunt studied classics at Oxford and became a Fellow of Corpus Christi College.

He began to paint while at the Liverpool Collegiate School. However at his father's suggestion he went in 1848 to Corpus Christi College, Oxford to study classics. His career there was distinguished; he won the Newdigate Prize in 1851 for his poem Nineveh, and became a Fellow of Corpus in 1853.^[1]

Hunt throughout his career provided sketches to the Illustrated London News the first such, came about through being a witness of the Dee Bridge train disaster on 24 May 1847.

Hunt, aged 16 at the time was in the following train, his sketch of the incident was printed by the newspaper on 29 May 1847.

He did not, however, abandon his artistic practice for, encouraged by Ruskin, he exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1854, and afterwards contributed landsc