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William Holman Hunt

William Holman Hunt (1827 - 1910) was active/lived in United Kingdom, England.  William Hunt is known for Religious, symbolic painting, naturalist scenes of urban and rural life, landscapes.

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The English painter William Holman Hunt (1827-1910) was one of the founding members of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and the only one to remain faithful to its precepts throughout his life.

William Holman Hunt was born in London. His father, a warehouse manager, reluctantly allowed him to enter the Royal Academy schools in 1844, where he met John Everett Millais. Profoundly influenced by his discovery of John Keats and his reading of John Ruskin's Modern Painters in 1847, Hunt developed a new approach to painting which involved the expression of significant moral ideas in a completely natural manner. To this end he evolved an intensely realistic technique, using brilliant, clear colors on a white ground instead of the traditional dark under-painting. These new ideas are embodied in his illustration inspired by Keats's The Eve of St. Agnes.

Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Hunt, and Millais founded the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. Despite Ruskin's defense of the broth   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 3662 characters.]  Artist bio

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Isabella and the Pot of Basil , 1867

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Asparagus Island, Kynance, Cornwall

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Pearl

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Portrait head of Sir John Everett Millais (1829-1896) , 1853

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HOMEWARD BOUND (THE PATHLESS WATERS)

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Annie Miller , 1853

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