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1827-1910 English painter. He worked as an office clerk in London from 1839 to 1843, attending drawing classes at a mechanics' institute in the evenings and taking weekly lessons from the portrait painter Henry Rogers. Holman Hunt overcame parental opposition to his choice of career in 1843, and this determined attitude and dedication to art could be seen throughout his working life. In July 1844, at the third attempt, he entered the Royal Academy Schools. His earliest exhibited works, such as Little Nell and her Grandfather (exh. British Institution, 1846; Sheffield, Graves A.G.), reveal few traces of originality, but the reading of John Ruskin's Modern Painters in 1847 was of crucial importance to Holman Hunt's artistic development. It led him to abandon the ambitious Christ and the Two Marys (Adelaide, A.G. S. Australia) in early 1848, when he realized its traditional iconography would leave his contemporaries unmoved. His next major work, the Flight of Madeline and Porphyro during the Drunkenness Attending the Revelry (1848; London, Guildhall A.G.), from John Keats's 'Eve of St Agnes', though displaced into a medieval setting, dramatized an issue dear to contemporary poets and central to Holman Hunt's art: love and youthful idealism versus loyalty to one's family. His first mature painting, it focuses on a moment of psychological crisis in a cramped and shallow picture space.

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william holman hunt,o.m.,r.w.s Group Portrait of Mrs Davies,of Wormbridge Court,Hereford with Four of her Clark (mk37) oil painting artist


william holman hunt,o.m.,r.w.s Group Portrait of Mrs Davies,of Wormbridge Court,Hereford with Four of her Clark (mk37) oil painting artist

Group Portrait of Mrs Davies,of Wormbridge Court,Hereford with Four of her Clark (mk37)
Painting ID::  25395
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oil on canvas 30x24 3/4in

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william holman hunt,o.m.,r.w.s The Plain of Rephaim from Mount Zion (mk46) oil painting artist


william holman hunt,o.m.,r.w.s The Plain of Rephaim from Mount Zion (mk46) oil painting artist

The Plain of Rephaim from Mount Zion (mk46)
Painting ID::  25993
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1855 Watercolour and bodycolour 35.6x50.8cm University fo Manchester,Whitworth Art Gallery

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