page_title: William Henry Hunt (painter)
section_title: Death
hierarchical_section_title: William Henry Hunt (painter) / Death
caption_attribution_description: Русский: Nicolaas Henneman (1813-1898). Portrait of the painter William Henry Hunt (1790-1864)
context_page_description: William Henry Hunt, was an English watercolourist. 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."
context_section_description: Hunt died of apoplexy on 10 February 1864. He was buried in Highgate Cemetery on 15 February 1864, attended to the grave by a number of artist colleagues. The Reader (27 February 1864) opined "we were but faintly beginning to appreciate and understand his genius when he was taken from us--one the greatest artists of the Century."
caption: Photographic portrait of W H Hunt, c. 1864, by Nicholaas Henneman
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