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John Young-Hunter BIOGRAPHY
1874 Glasgow, Scotland - 1955. Known for: Portrait, figure-genre and landscape painting.
Born in Glasgow, Scotland, John Young-Hunter was a portrait, figure, and landscape painter with a highly aristocratic upbringing in England and a career that reached to the American East and... Read full biography
Born in Glasgow, Scotland, John Young-Hunter was a portrait, figure, and landscape painter with a highly aristocratic upbringing in England and a career that reached to the American East and Southwest. His father, Colin Hunter, was a marine painter and member of the Royal Academy of London, and his... Read full biography
Born in Glasgow, Scotland, John Young-Hunter was a portrait, figure, and landscape painter with a highly aristocratic upbringing in England and a career that reached to the American East and Southwest. His father, Colin Hunter, was a marine painter and member of the Royal Academy of London, and his mother, Isabella Rattray Young (hence the Young-Hunter) was a distinguished pianist. The parents were married 29 October 1874 at Govan, Lanark, Scotland. John was raised with privilege and... Read full biography
Born in Glasgow, Scotland, John Young-Hunter was a portrait, figure, and landscape painter with a highly aristocratic upbringing in England and a career that reached to the American East and Southwest. His father, Colin Hunter, was a marine painter and member of the Royal Academy of London, and his mother, Isabella Rattray Young (hence the Young-Hunter) was a distinguished pianist. The parents were married 29 October 1874 at Govan, Lanark, Scotland. John was raised with privilege and extravagance among the culturally elite of London, and close family friends included John Singer Sargent and Lawrence Alma-Tadema. John received much recognition for his portrait painting in England, and his paintings were exhibited in the National Tate... Read full biography
Born in Glasgow, Scotland, John Young-Hunter was a portrait, figure, and landscape painter with a highly aristocratic upbringing in England and a career that reached to the American East and Southwest. His father, Colin Hunter, was a marine painter and member of the Royal Academy of London, and his mother, Isabella Rattray Young (hence the Young-Hunter) was a distinguished pianist. The parents were married 29 October 1874 at Govan, Lanark, Scotland. John was raised with privilege and extravagance among the culturally elite of London, and close family friends included John Singer Sargent and Lawrence Alma-Tadema. John received much recognition for his portrait painting in England, and his paintings were exhibited in the National Tate Gallery in London and the Luxembourg Museum in Paris. He studied at Clifton College in England and the Royal Academy School as well... Read full biography
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Born in Glasgow, Scotland, John Young-Hunter was a portrait, figure, and landscape painter with a highly aristocratic upbringing in England and a career that reached to the American East and Southwest.
His father, Colin Hunter, was a marine painter and member of the Royal Academy of London, and his mother, Isabella Rattray Young (hence the Young-Hunter) was a distinguished pianist. The parents were married 29 October 1874 at Govan, Lanark, Scotland. John was raised with privilege and extravagance among the culturally elite of London, and close family friends included John Singer Sargent and Lawrence Alma-Tadema.
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