 William Holman Hunt - Self-Portrait. William Holman Hunt (2 April 1827 – 7 September 1910) was a British painter. He was one of the founders of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. Image File history File links photograph from old catalogue File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ...
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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 wedding at the church of Saint Mary the Virgin, Ewell. 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. The church of St. ...
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. This article refers to an art institution in London. ...
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The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood was a group of English painters, poets and critics, founded in 1848 by John Everett Millais, Dante Gabriel Rossetti and William Holman Hunt. ...
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Hunt'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), which toured Britain and the United States. 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. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (2048x1419, 327 KB) Description: Title: de: Der gedungene Hirte Technique: de: Öl auf Leinwand Dimensions: de: 76,4 × 109,5 cm Country of origin: de: Großbritanien Current location (city): de: Manchester Current location (gallery): de: City of Manchester Art Galleries...
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The Hireling Shepherd, 1851 The Hireling Shepherd (1851) is a painting by the Pre-Raphaelite artist William Holman Hunt. ...
The Light of the World The Light of the World (1853–4) is an allegorical painting by William Holman Hunt representing the figure of Jesus preparing to knock on an overgrown and long-unopened door, symbolic of the human conscience. ...
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The Scapegoat (1856) is a painting by William Holman Hunt which depicts the scapegoat described in the Book of Leviticus, which must be ritually expelled from the flocks of the Israelite tribes as part of a sacrifical ritual of cleansing. ...
The Finding of the Saviour in the Temple (1854-1860) is a painting by William Holman Hunt intended as an ethnographically accurate version of the subject traditionally known as Christ Among the Doctors, an illustration of the child Jesus debating the interpretation of the scripture with learned rabbis. ...
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John William Waterhouses The Lady of Shalott, 1888 (Tate Gallery, London) For other uses of the word Shalott, please see Shalott (disambiguation) The Lady of Shalott is a Victorian poem by the English poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892). ...
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). Upper: Steel-plate engraving of Ruskin as a young man, made circa 1845, scanned from print made circa 1895. ...
The most familiar view of Carlyle is as the bearded sage with a penetrating gaze. ...
Edward Robert Hughes (1851-1914) is a well known Pre-Raphaelite English painter. ...
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. Florence as seen from Fiesole Fiesole is a town and comune (township) of Firenze province in the Italian region of Tuscany, 43°49N 11°18E, on a famously scenic height 346 m (1140 ft) above Florence, 8 km (5 mi) NE of that city. ...
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Statue of Sir Stamford Raffles by Woolner, erected at the spot where he first landed at Singapore. ...
Hunt's autobiography Pre-Raphaelitism and the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood 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. 1905 (MCMV) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar). ...
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Edward VII (Albert Edward; 9 November 1841 – 6 May 1910) was King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, King of the Commonwealth Realms, and the Emperor of India. ...
The Thames near Sonning Sonning is a small village in Berkshire, England a few miles east of Reading. ...
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Literary references
Hunt's painting "The Hireling Shepherd" plays an important if enigmatic role in Brian Aldiss's "antinovel" Report on Probability A (1968). Other paintings and drawings feature in Aldiss's short story The Secret of Holman Hunt and the Crude Death Rate (1975). Hunt's painting The Awakening Conscience is also implicitly referenced in scenes in Michel Faber's novel The Crimson Petal and the White (2002) and explicitly in Evelyn Waugh's novel Brideshead Revisited (1945). One painting of him is alluded to in Alan Hollinghurst's 2004 novel The Line of Beauty. Brian Wilson Aldiss, OBE, (born August 18, 1925 in East Dereham, Norfolk) is a prolific English author of both general fiction and science fiction. ...
The term Antinovel was coined by French critic Jean-Paul Sartre. ...
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Brideshead Revisited, The Sacred & Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder is a novel by the English writer Evelyn Waugh, first published in 1945. ...
The Line of Beauty is a contemporary masterpiece by Alan Hollinghurst. ...
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