# Alfred William Hunt artist context and auction value notes

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## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1830-11-15
- Death date: 1896-05-03
- Nationality: British
- Movements: British landscape painting, 19th century
- Common media: Watercolour, Oil painting

## About Alfred William Hunt

Alfred William Hunt (1830–1896) was a British painter and watercolourist, recognised for his landscape subjects drawn from the British countryside and continental Europe. The son of landscape painter Andrew Hunt, he developed a practice grounded in close observation of natural scenery. Between 1861 and 1865 he undertook extensive study trips across Scotland, Wales, Switzerland, Italy, Sicily, and Greece, absorbing a range of topographical and atmospheric motifs that informed his mature work. Active from roughly 1845 until his death in 1896, Hunt produced watercolours and paintings that are represented in institutional collections including the Tate. His work sits within the broader tradition of nineteenth-century British landscape painting, and collectors most frequently encounter his watercolours and oils at auction today.

## Common works and media

Hunt is most often represented at auction by watercolour landscapes depicting rural British, Scottish, and Welsh scenery, as well as views of Switzerland, Italy, Sicily, and Greece. Oil paintings on canvas or board appear less frequently. Typical subjects include mountain and coastal views, pastoral river scenes, and architectural or topographical studies. Works are generally signed and may bear dates from the 1850s through the early 1890s.

## Market and appraisal context

Alfred William Hunt's works appear regularly at auction, with over 180 recorded lots in the Appraisily dataset. Watercolours of British and European landscapes form the bulk of this material. Appraisal value depends on medium (watercolour versus oil), the specific location depicted, overall condition, provenance, and whether the work can be tied to his documented 1861–1865 continental travels. The absence of a published catalogue raisonné means that attribution should be carefully verified against known stylistic and documentary evidence. Comparable public auction results for similar British landscape watercolours of the period provide the most reliable pricing benchmarks.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine structured artist-identity research from museum, library-authority, and biographical sources with auction-house records, sale dates, realised prices, and comparable lots. For Alfred William Hunt, identity data is grounded in Getty ULAN, VIAF, Wikidata, the RKD, and the Tate collection page. Market observations draw on the Appraisily auction dataset and published scholarly references cited in the RKD.

## Sources

- RKD (Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie): https://rkd.nl/en/explore/artists/40634
- Tate: https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/alfred-william-hunt-285
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q708515
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/17236711/
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500029650
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_William_Hunt
- Library of Congress: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no93000710