Watercolour painter. The picture is a self-portrait. Baptised in what is now Endell Street. Sickly and lame from childhood, he was also very short and less than handsome. But he seems to have been well-liked and a successful artist, painting so many still-lifes of nature that he earned the nick-name "Bird's Nest". Father of Alfred William Hunt. Died 62 Stanhope Street, Hampstead.
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William Henry Hunt
William Henry (Bird's Nest) Hunt, 1790 - 1864, watercolour painter, lived her...
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John Edwards
abstract painter and sculptor, and teacher. Born in London and grew up in Hornsey. Head of painting and sculpture at St Martin's School of Art, London, in the 1980s. In the last decade of his life,...
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Vernon Hill
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Ronald Searle
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Philip de Laszlo
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Lady Ottoline Morrell
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