Miss Hannah Hunt
Born 1845 (Circa)
Active: 1896 - 1921
Country of birth and death: England
Sculptor, designer
Born in Leeds, Yorkshire. With her fellow student and future business partner, Mabel Inez Laws, she designed and modelled two large panels of 'Helios and the Four Winds' for the Sun Fire Insurance building in Park Row (1894).
Works
Dates are usually the year a work was exhibited so may differ from date of production.
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Locations
Address 13 Springfield Place Leeds | View on map
1896 (Circa) - 1901 (Circa)
Conducted a business at 16 Seminary Street Leeds | View on map
1911 (Circa)
Conducted a business at 52 Caledonian Street Leeds | View on map
1921 (Circa)
Exhibitions, Meetings, Awards and other Events
Exhibited at Leeds City Art Gallery, The Spring Exhibition, 1898
'Portrait of Alderman J. Hepworth, JP'
Exhibited at Leeds City Art Gallery, The Spring Exhibition, 1896
'Portrait of Alderman J. Hepworth, JP'
Exhibited at Leeds City Art Gallery, The Spring Exhibition, 1897
'Study of Head from Life'
Institutional and Business Connections
Student at Leeds College of Art
1892 (Circa) - 1894 (Circa)
Student of Edward Caldwell Bruce
Traded as Hunt & Laws
1901 (Circa)
Personal and Professional Connections
Partner of Mabel Inez Laws
The women are described as partners in the Census Returns of 1901 with Hunt (the older of the two) as the head of household
Descriptions of Practice
Occupation given in Census Returns of England and Wales, 1901
'Sculptor, Designer etc.' working at home on own account
Sources
Behind the Mosaic: one hundred years of art education
2003
p. 19
Catalogue of the Spring Exhibition, The City Art Gallery, Leeds 1896
1896
Cat. No. 560a, pp. 50, 75
Catalogue of the Spring Exhibition, The City Art Gallery, Leeds 1897
1897
Cat. No. 792, 819, 820, pp. 74, 77, 99
Catalogue of the Spring Exhibition, The City Art Gallery, Leeds 1898
1898
Cat. No. 269, pp. 30, 68
Census Returns of England and Wales, 1901
2005
Class: RG13; Piece: 4239; Folio: 137; Page: 22.
Kelly's Directory of Leeds, 1911
1911
p. 969
Kelly's Directory of Leeds, 1921
1921 (Presumed)
p. 986
Citing this record
'Miss Hannah Hunt', Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951, University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database 2011 [http://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/person.php?id=msib5_1207692336, accessed 29 May 2023]
