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Esther Anna Hunt

Esther Anna Hunt (1875 - 1951) was active/lived in California, Nebraska.  Esther Hunt is known for Painter-Oriental figure, portrait, landscape.

Born in Grand Island, Nebraska, Esther Hunt became a painter focused on Oriental themes, especially portraits and figures she did from models that she found in Chinatown in San Francisco.

She spent some of her early childhood in Columbus, Nebraska.  Her father, Stephen Barton, died when she was four years old in 1879, and two years later her mother remarried, and the family went to California. 

Her stepfather was Captain John A. Frazier, and he took his wife and her children to San Diego County where he acquired 700 acres of land and established the town of Carlsbad.  In 1893, the family moved to Los Angeles, and from 1896 to 1900, Esther Hunt was listed in the City Directory as an artist.

In 1901 she enrolled at the Mark Hopkins Institute in San Francisco, and financed her education with paintings of Chinatown child genre figures and portraits.  They became popular and widely circulated when she perfected a color proc   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 4481 characters.]  Artist bio

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