Charles Hunt
Illustration — Hunt's 1829 engraving titled The Age, Brighton Coach, at the Bull and Mouth Regent Circus Charles Hunt (1803 – 15 November 1877) was an English painter. He is known for having painted both historical subjects as well as humorous paintings, especially ones with naughty children. He was the father of Charles Hunt Jr (1829 to 1900), also a well known painter at the time.
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Charles Hunt
Lithographer Charles Hunt after Charles J. Basebe · https: collection.australiansportsmuseum.org.au/objects/31509/print-roger-kynaston-junr-esq-1841 · Public domain
- Born
- 1803
- Died
- 1877 · London.
- Nationality
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Occupation
- painter · printmaker · graphic artist · etcher · engraver
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Illustration — Hunt's 1829 engraving titled The Age, Brighton Coach, at the Bull and Mouth Regent Circus Charles Hunt (1803 – 15 November 1877) was an English painter. He is known for having painted both historical subjects as well as humorous paintings, especially ones with naughty children. He was the father of Charles Hunt Jr (1829 to 1900), also a well known painter at the time.
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Born in 1803, died in London in 1877.
Places of work recorded in the authority are London. Work by Charles Hunt is recorded in the collections of The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, Royal Museums Greenwich, Smithsonian American Art Museum and Yale Center for British Art.
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- 1.Hunt, Charles. Benezit Dictionary of Artists. 2011. 978-0-19-977378-7.
- 2.Forbes, Christopher. The Royal Academy (1837-1901) Revisited : Victorian Paintings from the Forbes Magazine Collection. 1975.
- 3.Casteras, Susan P. Victorian Childhood: Paintings Selected from the Forbes Magazine Collection by Christopher Forbes. Abrams. 1986. 978-0-8109-2340-9.
- 4.Hunt, Charles. Benezit Dictionary of Artists. 2011. 978-0-19-977378-7.
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