William Holman Hunt

William Holman Hunt (April 2, 1827 – September 7, 1910) was a British painter. He was one of the founders of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. After eventually entering the Royal Academy art schools, having initially been rejected, Hunt rebelled against the influence of its founder Sir Joshua Reynolds. He formed the Pre-Raphaelite movement in 1848, after meeting the poet and artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Along with John Everett Millais they sought to revitalise art by emphasising the detailed observation of the natural world in a spirit of quasi-religious devotion to truth. This religious approach was influenced by the spiritual qualities of Medieval art, in opposition to the alleged rationalism of the Renaissance embodied by Raphael.

External links

• 'The Scapegoat' (1854) at the Lady Lever Art Gallery, Port Sunlight

See also English school of painting

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