Details
ALFRED WILLIAM HUNT, R.W.S. (LIVERPOOL 1830-1896 LONDON)
Haybarge on the Thames
pencil and watercolour with scratching out on paper
9 x 1418 in. (22.8 x 35.8 cm.)
Provenance
with Thomas Agnew & Sons, Manchester
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 10 July 1997, lot 164.
Exhibited
London, Martyn Gregory, An Exhibition of British Watercolours 1750-1940, cat. 75, 16 November - 3 December 1999, no. 73.
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A scholar and poet before he devoted himself to painting, Hunt exhibited works in the Pre-Raphaelite manner in the 1850s before developing a broader style, achieving subtle effects of atmosphere through his mastery of sponging and scratching out.

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