Hunt出生在8岁的贝尔顿大街，现在7 尔街 ，而居民麻痴盲忑街，伦敦，曾在1805至 瓦利 ，山水画家，与他保持五年或六年。他展出的照片在三油 皇家学院 和1807年。

他成了连接 在水彩画家协会 在开始的时候，1824年被选为副和1827的正式成员。直到他去世的那一年，他是一个对社会的展览最多产的贡献者。多年来Hunt的平凡但勤劳一生都在 黑斯廷斯 “。

Hunt是一个对水彩画的英语学校的创造者。他的臣民，尤其是他后来的生活，非常简单；但是，以美味，幽默和良好的待遇，他们的排名第二，作品的最高艺术。认为从技术上讲，他的作品表现出的水彩画家的手艺的所有资源，从纯粹的透明着色的大胆的使用 水粉画 ，粗糙的纸和刮纹理。他对色彩的感觉也许是真实的，任何英语的艺术家。他说， 约翰·罗斯金 ，一切的一切，有史以来最好的画家 静物 。Hunt的工作的几个典型的例子，如 男孩和山羊，  沉思和李子，  樱草花和鸟的巢 在 维多利亚和Albert Museum “。

在他的一生中，Hunt的准确性和他的静物与鸟巢细节赢得了特别的注意，如上述 樱草花和鸟的巢 因此他获得了绰号“鸟巢”亨特。

他是一个守护神 托马斯门罗 医学院委托，the 疯人院 “。

The 8 year old Hunt was born in Belton street, now 7 street, residents of Marchmont street, London, in 1805 to have the landscape painter, Varley, remained with him for five years or six years. He exhibited photographs at the Royal Academy of oil three and 1807.
He became a member of the Watercolor Painters Association at the beginning of the year, and was elected vice and 1827 in 1824. Until the year of his death, he was the most prolific contributor to the society. Over the years Hunt's ordinary but hard-working life in Hastings".
Hunt is the creator of an English School of watercolors. His subjects, especially his later life, were very simple; however, with a taste, a good sense of humor and good treatment, they ranked second, the highest art of the works. That technically, all his work showed the watercolor painter craft, from pure transparent coloring bold use of gouache, rough paper and scratch texture. His sense of color may be true. He said, John Ruskin, all in all, there is still the best artist in history. Several typical examples of the work of Hunt, such as the boy and the goat, meditation and plum, primrose and bird's nest in Vitoria and Albert Museum".
During his lifetime, the accuracy of Hunt and his still life with the bird's nest details won special attention, such as the primrose and the bird's nest so he won the nickname "bird's nest" Hunter.
He is a patron of the Thomas Monroe Medical Institute commissioned the asylum".