Hunt, Cecil Arthur, 1873-1965
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Name (Latin)
Hunt, Cecil Arthur, 1873-1965
Date of birth
1873-03-08
Date of death
1965-08-05
Gender
male
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Sources of Information
- Cecil Arthur Hunt, VPRWS RBA (1873-1965); Cecil Arthur Hunt was born in Torquay, Devon, on 8 March 1873, the second of three children of the highly regarded writer and geologist, Arthur Roope Hunt and his wife, Sarah Gumbleton; he was educated at Winchester and Trinity College, Cambridge, studying Classics and Law, and being called to the Bar in 1899; he treated painting and writing as serious pastimes until 1925, when he was elected to the full membership of the Royal Society of Painters in Water-Colours; he then relinquished his legal career to become a professional painter; he established himself as an atmospheric painter of mountains, especially of the Alps and Dolomites, but he was soon accepted as a master of a great variety of topographies; during the First World War, Hunt was employed at the Home Office, first in connection with Irish prisoners interned in England following the Sinn Fein's Rebellion in 1916, and later assisting the Committee for Employment of Conscientious Objectors; Hunt showed work regularly at the Royal Academy of Arts (from 1912), the Royal Society of British Artists (from 1914) and the Royal Society of Painters in Water-Colours (from 1918); he was elected a member of the Royal Society of British Artists in 1914, an associate of the RWS [Royal Watercolour Society] in 1919, and a full member six years later; he died on 5 August 1965 ( (Chris Beetles Gallery, via WWW, April 23, 2026) )
- Cecil Arthur Hunt VPRWS RBA, 1966
- Retrospective exhibition 4th - 14th May 1966, 1966:t.p. (Cecil A. Hunt) cover (1873-1965)