Alfred William Hunt, (November 15, 1830 – May 3, 1896), was an English painter. He was son of Andrew Hunt, a landscape painter. November 15 is the 319th day of the year (320th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 46 days remaining. ... 1830 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... May 3 is the 123rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (124th in leap years). ... 1896 was a leap year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ...

He was 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. Liverpools skyline, as seen from the River Mersey. ... Corpus Christi College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. ... Sir Roger Newdigates Prize is awarded to students of the University of Oxford for Best Composition in English verse by an undergraduate who has not yet been in attendance at Oxford for four years since his or her date of admittance. ...

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 the London and provincial exhibitions. In 1861 he married, gave up his Fellowship, and was elected Associate of the Royal Society of Painters in Water-Colours, receiving full membership three years later. His work is distinguished mainly by its exquisite quality and a poetic rendering, of atmosphere. Ruskin may be one of two places in the United States: Ruskin, Florida Ruskin, Nebraska John Ruskin was an English author, poet and artist, although more famous for his work as art critic and social critic. ... This article refers to an art institution in London. ...

His wife Margaret Hunt wrote several works of fiction; and one of her daughters, Violet Hunt, is well known as a novelist.

See Frederick Wedmore, Alfred Hunt, Magazine of Art (1891); Exhibition of Drawings in Water Color by Alfred William Hunt, Burlington Fine Arts Club (1897).

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