Category: Works

Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1853)

Hunt, William Holman (1827-1910) Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1853 Pastel and pencil on paper, 28.6 x 25.9 cm Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester Compare: Hunt, William Holman (1827-1910) Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1882–1883 Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham     See also: • Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882)

Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1882-1883)

Hunt, William Holman (1827-1910) Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1882–1883 Oil on panel, 30.2 x 22.9 cm Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham Portrait of Dante Gabriel Rossetti at 22 years of age. A young Rossetti in his mid-twenties looking directly at the…

The Scapegoat (1854-1855)

Hunt, William Holman (1827-1910) The Scapegoat 1854–1855 oil on canvas, 33.7 x 45.9 cm Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester Vividly coloured depiction of a russet coloured goat on the brink of death. The goat stands in the centre foreground, head lowered, haunches caving…

The Scapegoat (1854-1856)

Hunt, William Holman (1827-1910) The Scapegoat 1854–1856 Oil on canvas, 86 x 140 cm Lady Lever Art Gallery, Port Sunlight Compare: Hunt, William Holman (1827-1910) The Scapegoat 1854–1855 Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester    

The Triumph of the Innocents (1883-1884)

Hunt, William Holman (1827-1910) The Triumph of the Innocents 1883–1884 Oil on canvas, 156.2 x 254 cm Tate Britain, London Hunt began painting this subject while on a visit to the Holy Land in the 1870s. It shows Mary, Joseph and…

The Triumph of the Innocents (1876-1887)

Hunt, William Holman (1827-1910) The Triumph of the Innocents 1876–1887 Oil on canvas, 157.5 × 247.5 cm Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool Mary and the infant Christ on the donkey are being led on their nocturnal flight to Egypt by Joseph. They…

Portrait of Mrs Edith Holman Hunt (1880)

Hunt, William Holman (1827-1910) Portrait of Mrs Edith Holman Hunt 1880 Chalk and pastel on paper, 42.8 x 33.8 cm Tate Britain, London Edith Holman Hunt was the artist’s second wife, the sister of his first wife Fanny. It was a…

The Ship (1875)

Hunt, William Holman (1827-1910) The Ship 1875 Oil on canvas, 76.2 x 97.8 cm Tate Britain, London Hunt began this painting after a voyage to the East with his second wife, Edith. Unusually, he painted it largely from memory, rather than from…

The Father’s Leave-taking (1879)

Hunt, William Holman (1827-1910) The Father’s Leave-taking 1879 Etching, 18.9 x 25.3 cm Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton Of the three founding members of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (Rossetti, Hunt, and Millais), William Holman Hunt was the most dedicated to working directly…