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William Holman Hunt
1827-1910 British William Holman Hunt Galleries Hunt's intended middle name was "Hobman", which he disliked intensely. He chose to call himself Holman when he discovered that his middle name had been misspelled this way after a clerical error at his baptism at the church of Saint Mary the Virgin, Ewell.[1] Though his surname is "Hunt", his fame in later life led to the inclusion of his middle name as part of his surname, in the hyphenated form "Holman-Hunt", by which his children were known. After eventually entering the Royal Academy art schools, having initially been rejected, Hunt rebelled against the influence of its founder Sir Joshua Reynolds. He formed the Pre-Raphaelite movement in 1848, after meeting the poet and artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Along with John Everett Millais they sought to revitalise art by emphasising the detailed observation of the natural world in a spirit of quasi-religious devotion to truth. This religious approach was influenced by the spiritual qualities of medieval art, in opposition to the alleged rationalism of the Renaissance embodied by Raphael. He had many pupils including Robert Braithwaite Martineau (best known for his work "Last Days in the Old Home") who was a moderately successful painter although he died young. The Hireling Shepherd, 1851Hunt's works were not initially successful, and were widely attacked in the art press for their alleged clumsiness and ugliness. He achieved some early note for his intensely naturalistic scenes of modern rural and urban life, such as The Hireling Shepherd and The Awakening Conscience. However, it was with his religious paintings that he became famous, initially The Light of the World (now in the chapel at Keble College, Oxford, with a later copy in St Paul's Cathedral), having toured the world. After travelling to the Holy Land in search of accurate topographical and ethnographical material for further religious works, Hunt painted The Scapegoat, The Finding of the Saviour in the Temple and The Shadow of Death, along with many landscapes of the region. Hunt also painted many works based on poems, such as Isabella and The Lady of Shalott. All these paintings were notable for their great attention to detail, their hard vivid colour and their elaborate symbolism. These features were influenced by the writings of John Ruskin and Thomas Carlyle, according to whom the world itself should be read as a system of visual signs. For Hunt it was the duty of the artist to reveal the correspondence between sign and fact. Out of all the members of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood Hunt remained most true to their ideals throughout his career. He eventually had to give up painting because failing eyesight meant that he could not get the level of quality that he wanted. His last major work, The Lady of Shalott, was completed with the help of an assistant (Edward Robert Hughes). Hunt married twice. After a failed engagement to his model Annie Miller, he married Fanny Waugh, who later modelled for the figure of Isabella. When she died in childbirth in Italy he sculpted her tomb up at Fiesole, having it brought down to the English Cemetery, beside the tomb of Elizabeth Barrett Browning. His second wife, Edith, was Fanny's sister. At this time it was illegal in Britain to marry one's deceased wife's sister, so Hunt was forced to travel abroad to marry her. This led to a serious breach with other family members, notably his former Pre-Raphaelite colleague Thomas Woolner, who had married Fanny and Edith's third sister Alice. Hunt's autobiography Pre-Raphaelitism and the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (1905) was written to correct other literature about the origins of the Brotherhood, which in his view did not adequately recognise his own contribution. Many of his late writings are attempts to control the interpretation of his work. In 1905, he was appointed to the Order of Merit by King Edward VII. At the end of his life he lived in Sonning-on-Thames.

 

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William Holman Hunt The Sphinx oil painting

Painting ID::  40018

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William Holman Hunt
The Sphinx
mk155 1854 Watercolor 25.4x35.5cmn
   
   
     

 

 

William Holman Hunt The Scapegoat oil painting

Painting ID::  40019

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William Holman Hunt
The Scapegoat
mk155 1854-1858 Oil on canvas 33.7x45.9cm
   
   
     

 

 

William Holman Hunt The Awakening Conscience oil painting

Painting ID::  40709

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William Holman Hunt
The Awakening Conscience
mk156 1853 Oil on canvas 76x55cm
   
   
     

 

 

William Holman Hunt Our English Coasts oil painting

Painting ID::  42764

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William Holman Hunt
Our English Coasts
MK169 1852 oil Paint on cloth 43.2x58.2cm
   
   
     

 

 

William Holman Hunt Unknown work oil painting

Painting ID::  48677

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William Holman Hunt
Unknown work
mk191 1853 Oil on canvas 76.2x55.8cm
   
   
     

 

 

William Holman Hunt F.G.Stephens oil painting

Painting ID::  53412

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William Holman Hunt
F.G.Stephens
mk231 1847 Oil on wood 20.3x17.5cm
   
   
     

 

 

William Holman Hunt The Hireling Shepherd oil painting

Painting ID::  53427

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William Holman Hunt
The Hireling Shepherd
mk231 1851 Oil on canvas 76.2x107.2cm
   
   
     

 

 

William Holman Hunt The Light of the World oil painting

Painting ID::  53428

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William Holman Hunt
The Light of the World
mk231 1854 Oil on canvas 105.4x58.9cm
   
   
     

 

 

William Holman Hunt The Awakening Conscience oil painting

Painting ID::  53429

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William Holman Hunt
The Awakening Conscience
mk231 30x22in 1854 Oil on canvas
   
   
     

 

 

William Holman Hunt Our English Coasts oil painting

Painting ID::  53431

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William Holman Hunt
Our English Coasts
mk231 1852 oil on canvas 17x23in
   
   
     

 

 

William Holman Hunt The Shadow of Death oil painting

Painting ID::  53436

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William Holman Hunt
The Shadow of Death
mk231 1870-73 Oil on canvas 212x167.6cm
   
   
     

 

 

William Holman Hunt Being English coasts oil painting

Painting ID::  53885

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William Holman Hunt
Being English coasts
mk234 1852 43x58cm
   
   
     

 

 

William Holman Hunt a converted british family sheltering a christian priest from the persecution of the druids oil painting

Painting ID::  56230

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William Holman Hunt
a converted british family sheltering a christian priest from the persecution of the druids
mk247 1850,oil on canvas,43.25x55.5 in,111x141 cm,asholean museum,oxford,uk
   
   
     

 

 

William Holman Hunt the awakening conscience oil painting

Painting ID::  56234

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William Holman Hunt
the awakening conscience
mk247 1853,oil on canvas,30x22 in,76x56 cm,tate collection,london,uk
   
   
     

 

 

William Holman Hunt the scapegoat oil painting

Painting ID::  56238

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William Holman Hunt
the scapegoat
mk247 1854 to 55,oil on canvas,13.25x18 in,34x46 cm,manchester art gallery,uk
   
   
     

 

 

William Holman Hunt The Light of the World oil painting

Painting ID::  68407

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William Holman Hunt
The Light of the World
1853-54 Oil on canvas on wood 125 x 60 cm
   
   
     

 

 

William Holman Hunt The Light of the World oil painting

Painting ID::  68447

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William Holman Hunt
The Light of the World
Technique Oil on canvas on wood Dimensions 125 x 60 cm
   
   
     

 

 

William Holman Hunt Claudio and Isabella oil painting

Painting ID::  75172

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William Holman Hunt
Claudio and Isabella
Claudio and Isabella, painted in 1850 by English pre-Raphaelite painter William Holman Hunt (1827-1910). The original is a Oil on mahogany cjr
   
   
     

 

 

William Holman Hunt Claudio and Isabella oil painting

Painting ID::  77008

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William Holman Hunt
Claudio and Isabella
painted in 1850 by English pre-Raphaelite painter William Holman Hunt (1827-1910). The original is a Oil on mahogany, support: 758 x 426 x 10 mm frame: 997 x 668 x 160 mm and belongs to the Tate Collection in London. The image is in public domain because the work was painted in 1850 and Hunt died in 1910. cyf
   
   
     

 

 

William Holman Hunt Isabella and the Pot of Basil oil painting

Painting ID::  81663

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William Holman Hunt
Isabella and the Pot of Basil
Date 1867(1867) Medium Oil on canvas Dimensions 187 x 116 cm (73.6 x 45.7 in) cjr
   
   
     

 

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William Holman Hunt
1827-1910 British William Holman Hunt Galleries Hunt's intended middle name was "Hobman", which he disliked intensely. He chose to call himself Holman when he discovered that his middle name had been misspelled this way after a clerical error at his baptism at the church of Saint Mary the Virgin, Ewell.[1] Though his surname is "Hunt", his fame in later life led to the inclusion of his middle name as part of his surname, in the hyphenated form "Holman-Hunt", by which his children were known. After eventually entering the Royal Academy art schools, having initially been rejected, Hunt rebelled against the influence of its founder Sir Joshua Reynolds. He formed the Pre-Raphaelite movement in 1848, after meeting the poet and artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Along with John Everett Millais they sought to revitalise art by emphasising the detailed observation of the natural world in a spirit of quasi-religious devotion to truth. This religious approach was influenced by the spiritual qualities of medieval art, in opposition to the alleged rationalism of the Renaissance embodied by Raphael. He had many pupils including Robert Braithwaite Martineau (best known for his work "Last Days in the Old Home") who was a moderately successful painter although he died young. The Hireling Shepherd, 1851Hunt's works were not initially successful, and were widely attacked in the art press for their alleged clumsiness and ugliness. He achieved some early note for his intensely naturalistic scenes of modern rural and urban life, such as The Hireling Shepherd and The Awakening Conscience. However, it was with his religious paintings that he became famous, initially The Light of the World (now in the chapel at Keble College, Oxford, with a later copy in St Paul's Cathedral), having toured the world. After travelling to the Holy Land in search of accurate topographical and ethnographical material for further religious works, Hunt painted The Scapegoat, The Finding of the Saviour in the Temple and The Shadow of Death, along with many landscapes of the region. Hunt also painted many works based on poems, such as Isabella and The Lady of Shalott. All these paintings were notable for their great attention to detail, their hard vivid colour and their elaborate symbolism. These features were influenced by the writings of John Ruskin and Thomas Carlyle, according to whom the world itself should be read as a system of visual signs. For Hunt it was the duty of the artist to reveal the correspondence between sign and fact. Out of all the members of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood Hunt remained most true to their ideals throughout his career. He eventually had to give up painting because failing eyesight meant that he could not get the level of quality that he wanted. His last major work, The Lady of Shalott, was completed with the help of an assistant (Edward Robert Hughes). Hunt married twice. After a failed engagement to his model Annie Miller, he married Fanny Waugh, who later modelled for the figure of Isabella. When she died in childbirth in Italy he sculpted her tomb up at Fiesole, having it brought down to the English Cemetery, beside the tomb of Elizabeth Barrett Browning. His second wife, Edith, was Fanny's sister. At this time it was illegal in Britain to marry one's deceased wife's sister, so Hunt was forced to travel abroad to marry her. This led to a serious breach with other family members, notably his former Pre-Raphaelite colleague Thomas Woolner, who had married Fanny and Edith's third sister Alice. Hunt's autobiography Pre-Raphaelitism and the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (1905) was written to correct other literature about the origins of the Brotherhood, which in his view did not adequately recognise his own contribution. Many of his late writings are attempts to control the interpretation of his work. In 1905, he was appointed to the Order of Merit by King Edward VII. At the end of his life he lived in Sonning-on-Thames.