Being dependent on art for his livelihood, he started a drawing school and "artists repository" on Bold Street in Liverpool, which was well patronized by the great families of the district.
He was a man of generous and amiable disposition, qualities which his more famous son Alfred William Hunt amply inherited from him.
He was unwilling to let his son become an artist and arranged for him to join Oxford University where he eventually read classics at Corpus Christi College.
The couple went to reside at Liverpool where they had a large family, Alfred being his seventh child (and only surviving son), and all were to a greater or less extent practiced in drawing.
Notably his son, Alfred William Hunt[1] who is known for his watercolors and his granddaughter, Jessie Macgregor (-1919), who also has paintings in the Walker Gallery.