Artists of the Tudor court of Holbein (1543) and Lucas Horenbout (1544), and would remain as court painter to Henry's son Edward VI and as painter and lady-in-waiting to both his daughters, Mary I and Elizabeth. Levina Teerlinc, in turn, taught the art of limning to Nicholas Hilliard, an apprentice goldsmith who would marry the daughter of Queen Elizabeth's jeweler and rise to become the supreme miniaturist of the age. John Bettes the Elder apprenticed his son, John the Younger to Hilliard. Hilliard's most famous student, Isaac Oliver, later limner to Anne of Denmark and Henry, Prince of Wales, was married to the niece of
William Henry Hunt (painter) acquired the nickname "Bird's Nest" Hunt. A patron of his was Thomas Monro, the Principal Physician of Bethlem Hospital. Hunt died of apoplexy. William Henry Hunt (painter) William Henry Hunt (London 28 March 1790 – 10 February 1864), was an English watercolourist. Hunt was born at 8 Old Belton Street, now 7 Endell Street, and was a resident of Marchmont Street, London and was apprenticed in about 1805 to John Varley,the English watercolour painter and astrologer, and a close friend of William Blake. Hunt remained with Varley for five or six years. He exhibited three oil paintings at the Royal