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William Henry Hunt, Boy with Shrimp Net, dated and exhibited 1835
This watercolor by William Henry Hunt, now in the collection of the Whitworth Art Gallery, University of Manchester, was exhibited in 1835. It is rather faded. The colors would have been much fresher and somewhat brighter, such as those seen in the similar Hunt watercolor, Boy with Shrimp Basket, which was exhibited the following year. A third watercolor by Hunt which is very similar in subject, size, and appearance, is the Fisherboy in the Victoria Art Gallery in Bath, England. Although Sir John Witt identified the Bath painting as being one which was exhibited by Hunt in 1830, that watercolor would have been similar to the others in the series of Boys on Rocks at Hastings. The Fisherboy in Bath was clearly painted a few years later, in about 1835-1836, at the same time as Hunt painted the two dated pictures of shrimpers.
William Henry Hunt, Boy with Shrimp Net, dated and exhibited 1835
This watercolor by William Henry Hunt, now in the collection of the Whitworth Art Gallery, University of Manchester, was exhibited in 1835. It is rather faded. The colors would have been much fresher and somewhat brighter, such as those seen in the similar Hunt watercolor, Boy with Shrimp Basket, which was exhibited the following year. A third watercolor by Hunt which is very similar in subject, size, and appearance, is the Fisherboy in the Victoria Art Gallery in Bath, England. Although Sir John Witt identified the Bath painting as being one which was exhibited by Hunt in 1830, that watercolor would have been similar to the others in the series of Boys on Rocks at Hastings. The Fisherboy in Bath was clearly painted a few years later, in about 1835-1836, at the same time as Hunt painted the two dated pictures of shrimpers.