Still-life with white and black grapes and redcurrents

Hunt was apprenticed to John Varley at the age of seven and spent much of his early career sketching in the London suburbs. On account of a deformity in his legs he preferred to sit whilst sketching and became adapt at depicting mossy banks and still-lifes. He was elected as a member of the Royal Water-Colour Society in 1826 and developed a technique of hatching and stippling in bodycolour over a white ground. Ruskin was a great admirer of his work.