hunter also used European Renaissance Paintings

"Hunter became well known in the 1990s for photographs generally made in series, in which he used friends - often young and not mainstream, in compositions based on European Renaissance and Pre-Raphaelite painting referring both to specific artists and narratives; and importantly striving to translate a sumptuous density of colour pigment on canvas into the photographic image."

(http://www.tomhunter.org/html/pp_27.htm)