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Landscape with Glass Houses (1971)
John Hunter (b.1893, Manchuria, d. 1951, Belfast)
Oil on Board
H: 51, W: 70 cms
John Hunter was the son of an Irish Presbyterian Church missionary and the brother of the artist, Mercy Hunter. His earliest exposure to art was through his mother but it was not until after the First World War that he attended the Metropolitan School of Art in Dublin. In 1921, he was working in the studio of Harry Clarke, the famous stained glass artist. He was appointed Art Inspector to the Northern Ireland Department of Education in 1923 and encouraged Kathleen Bridle (the teacher of William Scott and T P Flanagan) to come to Northern Ireland. He was elected President of the Ulster Academy of Art in 1943 and was Chairman of the CEMA Art Committee. In 1951 he received an OBE. In 1990, an exhibition of his paintings, watercolours, etchings, woodcuts and stained glass was held in the Emer Gallery, Belfast.
