01 Work of Art, Marine Paintings - With Footnotes, #146

Edward Aubrey Hunt, (American, 1855-1922)

Shipping in a heavy swell 

oil on panel 

28 x 33cm (11 x 13in).

Private collection

Edward Aubrey Hunt, 1855 - 1922, was born at Weymouth, Massachusetts, USA. Educated at Weymouth, Boston, Mass. and entered the architectural firm of Emerson & Fehmer but decided to take art as a career and admitted to L'Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris and studied in there for five years. He returned to London in 1878 where he became an established artist but returned frequently to his home town of Weymouth, Boston where he painted and sold the paintings in England. An American artist who travelled extensively and must have lived at Lowestoft, Suffolk about 1910. As a means of supplementing his income as an artist, throughout his career Hunt painted portraits. 

During one his trips to Tangier, Morocco he met Maude Chadwick and they were married in 1892 and they moved to Tangier where they remained for a some ten years and two of his important paintings are ‘Off the Barbara Coast’ and ‘Fantasia, Tangiers, Morroco’. Following the birth of his daughter, Mavis, Hunt returned to England living at a manor house at Hemmingford Grey, Huntingdonshire 1901-1904 and where they had another son, Wyndham and where some of his most successful landscapes and scenes along the river Ouse were done during these years but the family moved to Rye, Sussex in 1905. At the time of the First World War, Hunt and the family moved to Hastings. He died on November 22, 1922. More on Edward Aubrey Hunt

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