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 HUNT (ALFRED WILLIAM).
B. 1830. D. 1896.

Alfred William Hunt, M.A., R.W.S., a refined and subtle land-
scape painter, like his true master, Turner, was born in a town.
Andrew Hunt, an artist, of Liverpool, was his father, and Alfred
William Hunt was born at Liverpool in the year 1830, and there he
I- rst exhibited at the early age of twelve years. Painting and study-
ng his books with equal success, he won an exhibition of forty
pounds a year at the Liverpool Collegiate School, and in 1848 gained
..- scholarship at Corpus Christi College, Oxford; notwithstanding

his he continued his painting and drawing, and became a member
f the Liverpool Academy in 1850. In 1851 he Won the Newdigate

rize for English verse, his subject being “ Nineveh,” and in 1852
he took his degree with a second class in classics, and became M.A.
in 1855. “It was a mere accident,” as he gravely said, “that his
existence did not become Academic,” for he tried for a “ Master-
ship,” which, fortunately, he did not obtain ; but he did obtain in
the year 1857 a Fellowship in his college. In the year 1854 he
exhibited at the Royal Academy a view of Wastdale Head, from
‘Styhead Pass, Cumberland.” In 1856, “Summer Eve by Haunted
tream” Was at the Portland Gallery, and “Llyn Idwal,” which

Wyatt, the Oxford printseller, had been minded to send to the
Royal Academy, was hung upon the line, and was much praised
by John Ruskin. This decided him for Art, and that same year
he became a member of the original Hogarth Club, which was
just founded, and was the centre of the Pre-Raphaelite forces.
In 1857 he had two pictures and a drawing badly hung at the
Royal Academy, and in 1858 his elaborate “ Track of anOld-world
Glacier,” was altogether refused. His works were mostly exhibited
at the Society of Painters in 1Water-colours, of which he was
elected an Associate Exhibitor in the year 1862, When he was
settled in the city of Durham ; he became a full member two
years afterwards, 1864. In 1866 he removed to London, taking a
house on Campden Hill, Kensington. He continued to work
principally in water—colours, until the year 1870, when he again
sent to the Royal Academy; he exhibited nineteen oil pictures
there since that date; and five at the New Gallery. He exhibited
in all 3-13 water-colours at the R0 :11 Societ of Painters in VVater-