William Frederick Hulk (1852 - 1906)

William Frederick Hulk was born into the famous Hulk family of painters, his father being the marine and canal scene artist Abraham Hulk Senior
(1813 - 1897), and his uncle, the canal and townscape painter John Frederick Hulk (1829 - 1911). Abraham travelled widely, he settled in London in 1870.

William Frederick Hulk was a highly regarded painter of animals in landscape, especially cattle.

William became a prolific exhibitor, with 52 pictures shown at the Royal Academy from 1876 to 1898, including a patch between 1885 and 1894 when he was showing up to seven a year there. He had over 43 works shown as R.B.A., 18 at the Royal Institute (watercolours), 17 at the Royal Institute of Oil Painters, and several shown at the commercial London galleries, such as the Dudley.