Showing posts with label Alfred William Hunt. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Alfred William Hunt. Show all posts
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Wednesday, June 23, 2010
Alfred William Hunt - Mist Wreaths
[Mist Wreaths]
oil on canvas
exhibited 1861 at the RA ?
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1830 - 1896
Liverpool landscape painter and watercolourist. Studied at Oxford where he won a prize as a poet. He was a Master there and married in 1861. Associate of the Liverpool Academy and exhibited at the RA and elsewhere. Influenced by the Pre-Raphaelites and his watercolours were praised by Ruskin. Painted in Scotland, Lake District and the Thames Valley but was particularly fond of North Wales and Whitby. Travelled in France.
His daughter, Violet Hunt, wrote a book on Rossetti.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_William_Hunt
http://www.artnet.com/artist/658175/alfred-william-hunt.html
Sunday, July 5, 2009
Alfred William Hunt - Ehrenburg on the Mosel
on the back "7 Ehrenburg on the Moselle"
pencil and watercolour with gum arabic and scratching out
Monday, March 23, 2009
Alfred William Hunt - Early morning : Sonning, Berkshire
pencil and watercolour with gum arabic and scratching out
Sunday, March 22, 2009
Alfred William Hunt - A River Landscape
1861
pencil and watercolour with gum arabic and scratching out
Alfred William Hunt - Coniston Old Man, Lake District
pencil and watercolour with gum arabic
probably about 1873 when Hunt went to stay with Ruskin at Brantwood.
Alfred William Hunt - Ambleside Mill, Lake District
pencil and watercolour with gum arabic and with scratching out
(another version of this watercolour is also known)
Alfred William Hunt
[A lady by a rocky stream in dappled sunlight] 1858
pencil and watercolour with gum arabic heightened with touches of bodycolour and with scratching out
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1830 - 1896.
An English painter. He was son of Andrew Hunt, a landscape painter.
He was born in Liverpool. He began to paint while at the Liverpool Collegiati 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 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 1857.
He did not, however, abandon his artistic practice for, encouraged by Ruskin, he exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1854, and thenceforward regularly contributed landscapes in oil and water-colour to London and provincial exhibitions. In 1861 he married, gave up his Fellowship, and in 1862 was elected as an Associate of the Old Water-Colour Society, receiving full membership in 1864. His work is distinguished mainly by its exquisite quality and a poetic rendering of atmosphere. He was associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, and the extraordinary detail apparent in his landscapes and the careful rendering of grass, leaves and trees is a consequence of this.
He was born in Liverpool. He began to paint while at the Liverpool Collegiati 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 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 1857.
He did not, however, abandon his artistic practice for, encouraged by Ruskin, he exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1854, and thenceforward regularly contributed landscapes in oil and water-colour to London and provincial exhibitions. In 1861 he married, gave up his Fellowship, and in 1862 was elected as an Associate of the Old Water-Colour Society, receiving full membership in 1864. His work is distinguished mainly by its exquisite quality and a poetic rendering of atmosphere. He was associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, and the extraordinary detail apparent in his landscapes and the careful rendering of grass, leaves and trees is a consequence of this.
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