Edgar Hunt was born in 1876 in Birmingham, United Kingdom. He was welcomed into a family of artist, his father being Charles Hunt and brother Walter Hunt. Hunt was never formally trained at an art school; however, he was taught first hand by his father. Hunt always cared deeply for animals and as a child he began sketching farm life. Hunt became a real success making his farther proud, he went on to exhibit at the Royal Society of Artists in London and at the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool.

Edgar Hunt was a well-known for his bucolic-scenes of domestic livestock. Hunt admired nature and was devoted to animals. He had originally planned to become a farmer until he found success in painting.

Hunt rarely exhibited his work later in life, but he did show eleven of his animal paintings at the Royal Society of Artists in Birmingham. Due to the Industrial Revolution, many rural workers moved to urban areas to find work and prosper but this meant many people missed the simplicity and beauty of farm life; as a result, Edgar Hunt’s paintings became increasingly popular. His warm compositions gave a glimpse of the countryside, shortly mending the homesickness to those who moved. In 1953 in Midlands, United Kingdom, Edgar Hunt passed away after a bountiful career.