Alfred William Hunt

Alfred William Hunt ( * November 15, 1830 in Liverpool, † May 3, 1896 in London ) was an English landscape painter.

Life

Alfred William Hunt was a son of the landscape painter Andrew Hunt (1790-1861), where he received his first instruction. After he had already studied at Oxford University, he decided at the age of 25 years for the painting. Its mostly the coastal areas of England and Scotland borrowed landscapes and marines are of deep poetic feeling of great, realistic conception and particularly masterful in aerial perspective, water and trees; the foreground is sometimes treated volatile.

Works (excerpt)

Among his best oil paintings include:

• Flood and Wind (1860 )
• The disputed land (1862 )
• Morning mist on Loch Maree (1870 )
• Moonrise over Bamborough (1872 )
• My summer days ( 1876)
• On the coast of Yorkshire (1877 )

Among his best watercolors:

• The blast furnaces of Durham
• Loch Torridon
• Streatley on the Thames
• Bamborough from the south side
• The Nußernte