Who was William Holman Hunt?
Q: Who was William Holman Hunt?
A: William Holman Hunt was an English painter, and one of the founders of the Pre-Raphaelite brotherhood.
Q: What did Hunt and John Everett Millais seek to do?
A: Hunt and John Everett Millais sought to revitalise art by favouring detailed observation of the natural world in a spirit of devotion to truth.
Q: How were their works initially received?
A: Their works were initially not successful and were widely attacked in the art press for being clumsy and ugly.
Q: What is his most famous work?
A: His most famous work is The Light of the World (1851–1853), now in the chapel at Keble College, Oxford; a later version (1900) toured the world and now has its home in St Paul's Cathedral.
Q: Where did he travel to find material for more religious works?
A: He travelled to the Holy Land in search of material for more religious works.
Q: What other types of paintings did he create?
A: He also painted many works based on poems, such as Isabella, or the Pot of Basil and The Lady of Shalott.
Q: What is his auction record?
A: His auction record is £1,700,000, set at Sotheby's, London on 11 February 1994, for reduced-size version his 1873 work The Shadow of Death.
