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<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/william-henry-hunt-286" aria-label="More by William Henry Hunt" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">William Henry Hunt</a>
Fruit
Presented by Charles Fraser 1905
food and drink
fruit - non-specific
fruit, grape
fruit, nut
fruit, peach
objects
<p>A special technique was essential for Hunt’s fruit pieces and bird’s nests, which became greatly esteemed by collectors. He devised a new process which involved mixing gum with Chinese white and laying this as a hard priming on which he would then paint or stipple in pure watercolour. This enabled him to obtain the much admired ‘bloom’ on peaches, plums and grapes</p><p>This technical invention shows how close a link was forged between Hunt and later Victorian artists such as JF Lewis and the Pre-Raphaelites, with their insistence on detail and almost obsessively high degree of finish.</p><p><em>Gallery label, August 2004</em></p>
paper unique watercolour
26 May 2003 – 8 December 2003
2003-12-08
26 May 2003
2003-05-26
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2003-05-26
British Watercolours: Turner and his Contemporaries around 1840
Collection based display
Fruit
support: 216 × 273 mm
Presented by Charles Fraser 1905
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<span class="text11">A special technique was essential for </span><span class="text0">Hunt’s fruit pieces and bird’s nests, which      became greatly esteemed by collectors.  He devised a new process which      involved mixing gum with Chinese white and laying this as a hard priming on      which he would then paint or stipple in pure <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/w/watercolour" title="Glossary definition for 'Watercolour'"><span>watercolour</span></a>. </span><span class="text11">This enabled him to obtain the much admired      ‘bloom’ on peaches, plums </span><span class="text0">
and      grapes </span>
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<span class="text0">This technical invention shows how close  a link was      forged between Hunt and later </span><span class="text11"><a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/v/victorian" title="Glossary definition for 'Victorian'"><span>Victorian</span></a> artists      such as JF Lewis and </span><span class="text0">
the <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/pre-raphaelite" title="Glossary definition for 'Pre-Raphaelite'"><span>Pre-Raphaelites</span></a>, with      their insistence on detail and almost obsessively high degree of finish. </span>
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food and drink fruit, grape fruit - non-specific fruit, nut fruit, peach objects