Hunt, WILLIAM HENRY

Hunt, WILLIAM HENRY, English painter in water-colours, was born in London, March 28, 1790. He was one of the creators of the English school of water-colour painting, Mr Ruskin pronouncing him to be among the greatest colourists of the school. His subjects are very simple—'Peaches and Grapes,' 'Old Pollard,' 'Basket of Plums,' 'Roses,' 'Wild Flowers,' 'Trampers at Home,' 'A Farmhouse Beauty,' 'Fast Asleep,' &c., but they are conceived in a finely poetical spirit, and present the perfection of finish. He died 10th February 1864.