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Robert Hunter BIOGRAPHY
c.1715/20 - c.1803. Known for: Portrait painting.
Robert Hunter was a leading portrait painter in Dublin during the 1760s and 1770s. He was a prolific exhibitor at the Society of Artists in Dublin, sending a total of ninety works to its shows, all... Read full biography
Robert Hunter was a leading portrait painter in Dublin during the 1760s and 1770s. He was a prolific exhibitor at the Society of Artists in Dublin, sending a total of ninety works to its shows, all of which were portraits, except his very first exhibit, Susannah and the Elders. He won a premium of... Read full biography
Robert Hunter was a leading portrait painter in Dublin during the 1760s and 1770s. He was a prolific exhibitor at the Society of Artists in Dublin, sending a total of ninety works to its shows, all of which were portraits, except his very first exhibit, Susannah and the Elders. He won a premium of fifty pounds ‘as the best performer in history painting’ in 1755. Little is known about his life, but he was described as ‘a walking chronicle of everything relative to the Irish artists and arts’.... Read full biography
Robert Hunter was a leading portrait painter in Dublin during the 1760s and 1770s. He was a prolific exhibitor at the Society of Artists in Dublin, sending a total of ninety works to its shows, all of which were portraits, except his very first exhibit, Susannah and the Elders. He won a premium of fifty pounds ‘as the best performer in history painting’ in 1755. Little is known about his life, but he was described as ‘a walking chronicle of everything relative to the Irish artists and arts’. Anthony Pasquin writing in 1796 states that he was born in Ulster and 'studied principally under Mr. Pope Senior’. One of his notable works is a portrait of an important Irish aristocratic politician
Robert Hunter was a leading portrait painter in Dublin during the 1760s and 1770s. He was a prolific exhibitor at the Society of Artists in Dublin, sending a total of ninety works to its shows, all of which were portraits, except his very first exhibit, Susannah and the Elders. He won a premium of fifty pounds ‘as the best performer in history painting’ in 1755. Little is known about his life, but he was described as ‘a walking chronicle of everything relative to the Irish artists and arts’. Anthony Pasquin writing in 1796 states that he was born in Ulster and 'studied principally under Mr. Pope Senior’. One of his notable works is a portrait of an important Irish aristocratic politician
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Robert Hunter was a leading portrait painter in Dublin during the 1760s and 1770s. He was a prolific exhibitor at the Society of Artists in Dublin, sending a total of ninety works to its shows, all of which were portraits, except his very first exhibit, Susannah and the Elders. He won a premium of fifty pounds ‘as the best performer in history painting’ in 1755. Little is known about his life, but he was described as ‘a walking chronicle of everything relative to the Irish artists and arts’. Anthony Pasquin writing in 1796 states that he was born in Ulster and 'studied principally under Mr. Pope Senior’. One of his notable works is a portrait of an important Irish aristocratic politician