page_title: William Henry Hunt (painter)
section_title: Painting style
hierarchical_section_title: William Henry Hunt (painter) / Painting style
caption_attribution_description: English: Chaffinch Nest and May Blossom, . watercolor on paper by William Henry Hunt (1790-1864), c.1845, the Courtauld Gallery, London
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's early work shows the influence of his teacher, John Varley, as well as his patron, Dr. Thomas Munro and Henry Edridge, a close associate of Munro.  Architectural subjects and country landscapes dominated his early work. Loose drawing in pencil or pen and fluid, clear color washes are the hallmarks. His subjects, especially those of his later life, are often simple; but, considered technically, his works exhibit all the resources of the watercolour painter's craft, from the purest transparent tinting to the boldest use of gouache, stippling on prepared opaque grounds, use of rough paper, and scraping for highlights and texture. His sense of colour is perhaps as true as that of any English artist. He was, says John Ruskin, all in all, the finest ever painter of still life. Several characteristic examples of Hunt's work, as the Boy with a Goat, A Brown Study, Plums, and Primroses and Birds' Nests are in the Victoria and Albert Museum.
  According to the Redgraves, "The works of Hunt differ widely from his contemporaries: they have a character of their own, and many qualities which place him as an artist, in his somewhat narrow range, on a level with the highest.". "William Henry Hunt Chaffinch Nest and May Blossom Oil Painting". Master Works Art Gallery. Archived from the original on 16 July 2012. Retrieved 23 December 2012.</ref>
caption: Chaffinch Nest and May Blossom, c.1845
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