WINDSOR CASTLE
By ALFRED WILLIAM HUNT


WINDSOR CASTLE
By ALFRED WILLIAM HUNT (1830- 1896)
IN THE TATE GALLERY, LONDON

Alfred Hunt was a remarkable man, who, if he had been less clever, would probably have been a greater painter. For a long time he was torn between two ambitions, and succeeded in a good measure in both. Fortunately, by a happy success, he was induced to sacrifice the one in favour of the other, but his mind was not filled with his work to the extent that he was bound to achieve a rank with the immortals. He was learned and talented, but he lacked the inspiring fire that would have made a genius of him.

His father was an artist, and the son was brought up in an artistic environment. At the early age of twelve he exhibited his first picture, and during his youth he combined the study of art with the successful pursuit of a general education. He won an exhibition at the Liverpool Collegiate School, and in 1848 proceeded to Corpus Christi College, Oxford, with a scholarship. Art and the classics were pursued with equal success. In 1850 he became a member of the Liverpool Academy. In 1851 he won the Newdigate Prize at Oxford. In 1852 he took his degree with a second-class in classics. In 1854 he exhibited at the Academy "A View of Wastdale Head from Styhead Pass, Cumberland." In 1855 he became M.A., while in 1856 he showed one picture, " Summer Eve by Haunted Stream," at the Portland Gallery, and "Llyn Idwal" at the Royal Academy, where it was hung on the line and was warmly praised by Ruskin. Having failed to obtain a mastership at Oxford, this last success decided Hunt to devote himself to the production of his Turneresque landscapes, and he adhered to his resolution although he became a Fellow of his college in the following year.

From the book "Famous Paintings" Volume 2 printed in 1913.

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Online "Name the Painting"









Biography Alfred William Hunt
at Victorian Web

Watercolor by Hunt
at Victorian Web

Alfred William Hunt
at the Tate Gallery

Alfred William Hunt
at Wikipedia

Hunt
three works at the Chris Beetles Gallery


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Arnesby Brown
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Joseph Clark
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John Constable
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Jean Baptiste Camille
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Jean Baptiste Camille
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A Flood


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Henri Fantin-Latour
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Thomas Gainsborough
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Thomas Gainsborough
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Jean Baptiste Greuze
Fidelity


James Clark Hook
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Alfred William Hunt
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Josef Israels
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B.W. Leader
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Portrait of the Artist

Alphonse Legros
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Anton Mauve
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J.L.E. Meissonier
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Sir J.E. Millais
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Sir J.E. Mallais
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George Morland
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George Morland
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Murillo
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Alfred Parsons
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All Things Gay


Ralph Peacock
The Sisters


Rembrandt
Syndics of the
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Guido Reni
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Sir Joshua Reynolds
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With Her Infant Son


Briton Riviere
The Temptation
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Dante Gabriel
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Lady Stanley
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Jan Steen
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Marcus Stone
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Constant Troyon
Watering Cattle


H.S. Tuke
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Velazquez
King Philip IV. of Spain


S.E. Waller
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Thomas Webster
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