Even before he retired from the Fleet Air Arm, the late Commander Geoff Hunt had made a unique position for himself as a highly skilled miniature painter of maritime and aviation subjects, in particular meticulously researched scenes of marine warfare from the Napoleonic period.

A past president of the Hilliard Society of Miniaturists, and a council member of the Royal Miniature Society, his skills created a series of detailed Nelson battle scenes for the Hockin & Roberts Maritime Collection.