William Holman Hunt (1827-1910) - A Pre-Raphaelite Painter

About the Artist 

William Holman Hunt was born in 1827 at Cheapside, City of London to a warehouse manager William Hunt and Sarah. He died in 1910. He was an English painter and artist. He was one of the founding fathers of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. He is widely known for Orientalist and Pre-Raphaelite movements. His paintings had great details, elaborative symbolism, and vivid colors. His paintings and its features were highly influenced by the writings of writers such as John Ruskin and Thomas Carlyle who believed that the world should be red as a system, which is full of visual signs. 

William was very much keen to the popular appeal and public visibility of his works. 

His famous paintings

• The Lantern Maker's Courtship, A Street Scene in Cairo (1854–56)
• Christ and the two Marys (1847 and 1897)
• The Hireling Shepherd (1851)
• Portrait of Fanny Holman Hunt (1866–67)
• Isabella and the Pot of Basil (1868)
• The Birthday (1868)
• Amaryllis (1884)
• May Morning on Magdalen Tower (1890)
• The Lady of Shalott (1905)
• The Scapegoat (1856)
• The awakening conscience 1853
• Our English Coasts, 1852

Partial list of works

• A converted British family, sheltering addition, missionary from the persecution of the druids (1850)
• Valentine Rescuing Sylvia from Proteus (1851)
• The awakening conscience 1853
• The Light of the World (1854)
• The Scapegoat (1856)
• The Finding of the Saviour in the Temple (1860)
• The Shadow of Death (1871)
• The Importunate Neighbour (1895)
• The Miracle of the Holy Fire (1899)

Art Gallery

Isabella and the Pot of Basil (1868)

 

Our English Coasts, 1852

The Awakening Conscience (1853)

The Birthday (1868)

Portrait of Fanny Holman Hunt(1866–67)

May Morning on Magdalen Tower (1890)

Amaryllis (1884)

The Hireling Shepherd (1851)

The Lady of Shalott (1905)

The Scapegoat (1856)

Christ and the two Marys (1847 and 1897)

The Lantern Maker's Courtship, A Street Scene in Cairo (1854–56)