A Converted British Family Sheltering a Christian Missionary from the Persecution of the Druids
William Holman Hunt · 1849
William Holman Hunt
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland · 1827–1910
William Holman Hunt was an English painter and one of the founders of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. His paintings were notable for their great attention to detail, vivid colour, and 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. Of all the members of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, Hunt remained most true to their ideals throughout his career.
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Our English Coasts
William Holman Hunt · 1852
National Gallery
Our English Coasts, also known as Strayed Sheep, is an oil-on-canvas painting by William Holman Hunt, completed in 1852. It has been held by the Tate Gallery since 1946, acquired through the National Art Collections Fund. William Holman Hunt was a British painter, who co-founded the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (1848), along with Dante Gabriel Rossetti and John Everett Millais.
London Bridge on the Night of the Marriage of the Prince and Princess of Wales
William Holman Hunt · 1863
Ashmolean Museum
London Bridge on the Night of the Marriage of the Prince and Princess of Wales is an 1864 painting by the English Pre-Raphaelite artist William Holman Hunt. It depicts a crowd scene on London Bridge on the night of the 10 March 1863, after the Wedding of Prince Albert Edward and Princess Alexandra at Windsor Castle earlier in the day. The bridge is shown festooned with Danish flags in honour of Princess Alexandra, who had married Queen Victoria's eldest son and heir.
The Awakening Conscience
William Holman Hunt · 1853
Tate Britain
The Awakening Conscience (1853) is an oil-on-canvas painting by the English artist William Holman Hunt, one of the founders of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, which depicts a woman rising from her position in a man's lap and gazing transfixed out the room's window. The painting is in the collection of the Tate Britain, in London. Initially, the painting appears to depict a momentary disagreement between husband and wife, but the title and a host of symbols within the painting make it clear that this is a mistress and her lover.
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