Alfred William Hunt, , was an English painter. He was son of Andrew Hunt, a landscape painter.
Hunt was born in Liverpool in 1830. He began to paint while at the Liverpool Collegiate School. However at his fathers suggestion he went in 1848 to Corpus Christi College, Oxford to study classics. His career there was distinguished he won the Newdigate Prize in 1851 for his poem Nineveh, and became a Fellow of Corpus in 1857.
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