Monro of Fyrish
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The Monro of Fyrish family were a Scottish family and branch of the ancient highland Clan Munro. The family produced a notable dynasty of doctors to London in the 18th and 19th century where they were
Monro of Fyrish coat of arms
Dr James Monro, 8th of Fyrish
Dr John Munro, 9th of Fyrish
Dr Thomas Monro
William Henry Hunt (painter)
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William Henry Hunt, was an English watercolourist. Hunt was "one of the key figures in nineteenth-century English watercolour painting. His work was extensively collected in his lifetime, particularly
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…patron of other artists. He taught J. M. W. Turner the techniques of tinted drawing and patronised the careers of Turner and of the landscape painter William Henry Hunt. The critic John Ruskin said in his "Notes" on Turner in March 1878, that He established at his house in Bushey a school for artists and among those…
Grave of William Henry Hunt in Highgate Cemetery
Chaffinch Nest and May Blossom, c.1845
Exhibited by the artist at the 1834 Spring Exhibition of the Society of Painters in Water-Colours under the title, The Father's Boots (in later years came to be known as Grandfather's Boots).
Le Malade Imaginaire, watercolor painting of the artist posing as a hypochondriac, exhibited at the 1855 Spring Exhibition of the Society of Painters in Water-Colours