Although born in Skipton, Lancashire, Thomas Hunt, who studied at Leeds and at Glasgow School of Art, and later in Paris, lived a great part of his life in Glasgow. From 1881 he exhibited at many of the principal UK galleries, showing some 22 works at the Royal Academy, 64 at the Royal Scottish Academy, 129 at the Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolours, 88 at the Royal Society of Painters in Watercolours and 59 at the Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts. He was elected A.R.S.A. in 1914 and was President of the Glasgow Art Club between 1905 and 1906.