(b Ulster, 1715-20; d Dublin, after 1803). Irish painter. He was possibly the most prolific portrait painter in Dublin during the second half of the 18th century, until the 1790s receiving the leading commissions for state, civic and society paintings. He was acquainted with some of the city's most prominent intellectuals, including founder-members of the Irish Society of Artists. Among them was Samuel Madden, of whom Hunter painted a three-quarter-length portrait (Dublin, Trinity Coll.) and another portrait (1755; untraced) known from a mezzotint by Richard Purcell (d 1766).
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