William Henry Hunt (1790–1864) self-portrait © National Portrait Gallery, London
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Simon Fenwick
Hunt, William Henry (1790–1864), watercolour painter, was born in March 1790 and baptized on 28 March 1790 at 8 Old Belton Street (now Endell Street), London, son of John Hunt, tin-plate worker and japanner, and his wife, Judith. Sickly and lame from childhood, he was regarded as too weak to follow his father's profession. ...