William Henry Hunt (painter)

Photographic portrait of W H Hunt, c. 1864, by Nicholaas Henneman

William Henry Hunt (London 28 March 1790 – 10 February 1864), was an English watercolourist.[1] Hunt was "one of the key figures in nineteenth-century English watercolour painting. His work was extensively collected in his lifetime, particularly his genre pictures of children, often in humorous situations, and his detailed, naturalistic still lifes of fruit, flowers, and birds' nests that earned him the nickname ‘Bird’s Nest’ Hunt."[2]

  1. ^ Monkhouse, William Cosmo (1891). "Hunt, William Henry" . In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 28. London: Smith, Elder & Co. pp. 281–283.
  2. ^ Selborne, Joanna; Payne, Christiana (2017). William Henry Hunt: Country People. London: The Courtauld Gallery, 2017. p. 9. ISBN 9781911300236.