A Graduate of Pomona
William Henry Hunt, Dead Game, c. 1828
Dead game had been the subject of still lifes for centuries before William Henry Hunt began to paint. But Hunt's watercolors of dead birds and other animals had nothing to do with any allegorical meanings or as depictions of trophies of any hunts. Instead, Hunt was interested in painting the colors and textures found in birds, dead or alive. And it was a lot easier to paint a dead bird in his studio than to get a live one to pose for him!
William Henry Hunt, Dead Game, c. 1828
Dead game had been the subject of still lifes for centuries before William Henry Hunt began to paint. But Hunt's watercolors of dead birds and other animals had nothing to do with any allegorical meanings or as depictions of trophies of any hunts. Instead, Hunt was interested in painting the colors and textures found in birds, dead or alive. And it was a lot easier to paint a dead bird in his studio than to get a live one to pose for him!