George Edward Hunt (jeweller)

George Edward Hunt
Born	Dudley, England
Died	4 December 1960(1960-12-04) (aged 68) 10 Bull Street, Harborne
Resting place	St Peter's Church, Harborne
Known for	Jewellery design

George Edward Hunt (2 September 1892 – 1960) was a notable British Birmingham-based Arts and Crafts jeweller.

He was born on 2 September 1892 in Dudley, near Birmingham. At the age of five he contracted diphtheria and became deaf.[1] The family left the Black Country and moved to Harborne, a suburb of Birmingham, where Hunt remained until his death in 1960.[2]

In 1908, at the age of sixteen, Hunt won free admission to the Margaret Street Art School in Birmingham, where he was taught by Bernard Cuzner.[3] He was awarded several prizes for both design and metalwork in national competitions.[2]

Hunt opened a shop at Five Ways, near Birmingham city centre. By the 1920s his clientele included aristocracy such as Eileen Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, Duchess of Sutherland, for whom he made a series of enamelled miniatures of her ancestors.[2]

He is buried at St Peter's Church, Harborne, alongside his parents.[1]

An exhibition of his work, The Silent World of an Arts and Crafts Jeweller was held by Bonhams in 2006, at their premises in London, Bath and Knowle, near Birmingham.[3]

References

1. Hoban, Sally (16 September 2006). "Jewel in the Crown; One of the Most Prolific Makers of Arts and Crafts Jewellery Lived and Work in Birmingham". The Birmingham Post.^[dead link‍]
2. Pyne, Anne (1990). "George Hunt Art Jeweller". The Antique Collector.
3. "Birmingham Group jeweller emerges from the shadows". Antiques trade gazette. 9 May 2013. Retrieved 20 February 2015.