HUNT, WILLIAM HENRY (179o-1864), English water colour painter, was born in London, on March 28, 1790. He was apprenticed about 18o5 to John Varley, the landscape-painter, with whom he remained five or six years, exhibiting three oil pic tures at the Royal Academy in 1807. He exhibited regularly at the Society of Painters in Water-colour, of which he became a full member in 1827. He died on Feb. 1o, 1864. Hunt was one of the creators of the English school of water-colour painting. His subjects, especially those of his later life, are extremely simple; but, by the delicacy, humour and fine power of their treatment, they rank second to works of the highest art only.