(1855 - 1922)
Edmund Aubrey Hunt was born near Boston, USA, the son of a manufacturer. After leaving school he travelled to Paris. He trained at the Ecole des Beaux Arts and under Jean-Léon Gérôme. He travelled through England, Holland, Belgium and Italy and, by 1879, had relocated to London. He exhibited in London and Boston and frequently returned to the USA. Returning from one USA excursion, he survived the sinking of his ship. He became an associate of Whistler’s. In the 1880s he made trips to Tangiers, later moving there and painting local people, land and seascapes. After more than a decade, he returned to the UK, living first in Hemingford Grey, Cambridgeshire, and later at Rye, Sussex. During the war he moved to Hastings, where he died, aged 67.
