William Holman Hunt The Shadow of Death Painting ID:: 53436 new19/William Holman Hunt-265474.jpg
The Shadow of Death mk231
1870-73
Oil on canvas
212x167.6cm
William Holman Hunt a converted british family sheltering a christian priest from the persecution of the druids Painting ID:: 56230 new20/William Holman Hunt-734695.jpg
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 Painting ID:: 56234 new20/William Holman Hunt-998795.jpg
the awakening conscience mk247
1853,oil on canvas,30x22 in,76x56 cm,tate collection,london,uk
William Holman Hunt the scapegoat Painting ID:: 56238 new20/William Holman Hunt-884396.jpg
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 Painting ID:: 68407 new23/William Holman Hunt-434438.jpg
The Light of the World 1853-54
Oil on canvas on wood
125 x 60 cm
William Holman Hunt The Light of the World Painting ID:: 68447 new23/William Holman Hunt-578589.jpg
The Light of the World Technique Oil on canvas on wood
Dimensions 125 x 60 cm
William Holman Hunt Claudio and Isabella Painting ID:: 75172 new24/William Holman Hunt-776358.jpg
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
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William Holman Hunt Claudio and Isabella Painting ID:: 77008 new24/William Holman Hunt-866565.jpg
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.
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William Holman Hunt Isabella and the Pot of Basil Painting ID:: 81663 new24/William Holman Hunt-457664.jpg
Isabella and the Pot of Basil Date 1867(1867)
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions 187 x 116 cm (73.6 x 45.7 in)
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William Holman Hunt On English Coasts. Painting ID:: 82476 new24/William Holman Hunt-464533.jpg
On English Coasts. 1852(1852)
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions 43 x 58,5 cm
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William Holman Hunt Isabella and the Pot of Basil Painting ID:: 84296 new25/William Holman Hunt-343959.jpg
Isabella and the Pot of Basil Oil on canvas, 187 x 116 cm,
Date 1867(1867)
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William Holman Hunt Charles Sumner portrait William Morris Hunt Painting ID:: 86456 new25/William Holman Hunt-496563.jpg
Charles Sumner portrait William Morris Hunt Date c. 1870
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William Holman Hunt Selfportrait Painting ID:: 88472 new25/William Holman Hunt-386588.jpg
Selfportrait oil on canvas, 103.5 cm x 73 cm
1867
William Holman Hunt A Converted British Family Sheltering a Christian Missionary from the Persecution of the Druids, a scene of persecution by druids in ancient Britain p Painting ID:: 88562 new25/William Holman Hunt-879496.jpg
A Converted British Family Sheltering a Christian Missionary from the Persecution of the Druids, a scene of persecution by druids in ancient Britain p 1850. Oil on canvas.cjr
William Holman Hunt The Scapegoat Painting ID:: 88719 new25/William Holman Hunt-834778.jpg
The Scapegoat 1854(1854)
Medium Oil on canvas
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William Holman Hunt The Triumph of the Innocents Painting ID:: 89068 new25/William Holman Hunt-547835.jpg
The Triumph of the Innocents c. 1883(1883)
Medium oil on canvas
Dimensions Height: 1,562 cm (615 in). Width: 254 cm (100 in).
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William Holman Hunt Claudio and Isabella Painting ID:: 90815 new25/William Holman Hunt-873984.jpg
Claudio and Isabella 1850(1850)
Medium oil on mahogany
Dimensions Height: 758 cm (298.4 in). Width: 426 cm (167.7 in).
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William Holman Hunt A Converted British Family Sheltering Painting ID:: 91100 new25/William Holman Hunt-467364.jpg
A Converted British Family Sheltering 1850. Oil on canvas. Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, UK
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William Holman Hunt Our English Coasts Painting ID:: 91841 new25/William Holman Hunt-573973.jpg
Our English Coasts 1852(1852)
Medium oil on canvas
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William Holman Hunt Rienzi vowing to obtain justice for the death of his young brother slain in a skirmish between the Colonna and the Orsini factions Painting ID:: 94989 new26/William Holman Hunt-663688.jpg
Rienzi vowing to obtain justice for the death of his young brother slain in a skirmish between the Colonna and the Orsini factions 1849
Type oil on canvas
Dimensions 86.3 cm x 122 cm
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William Holman Hunt The Finding of the Saviour in the Temple Painting ID:: 95001 new26/William Holman Hunt-359498.jpg
The Finding of the Saviour in the Temple 1860
Type Oil on canvas
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William Holman Hunt The Shadow of Death Painting ID:: 95061 new26/William Holman Hunt-657947.jpg
The Shadow of Death 1873
Type Oil on canvas
Dimensions 214.2 cm x 168.2 cm
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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.