Watercolors by William Henry Hunt Showing the Artist's "Other Boy Model"

From 1836 until the early 1840s, at a time when John Swain was still Hunt's primary boy model, the artist produced a number of other watercolors which depicted a different boy. One could say that this boy was more attractive than the impish looking John Swain, with more refined features, or one could just say what I most often hear from impartial observers - the good looking boy. This model is, to my knowledge, still unidentified, but it is certain that he cannot be one of the Swain siblings. He is the approximate contemporary of John Swain, and there were no Swain boys born after John. While I have not yet found any definitive evidence, let alone definitive proof, I strongly suspect that the model was Hunt's own nephew, who was also named William Henry Hunt.